Cant ssh into server

Posted on October 11, 2016

I setup a new droplet about 36hrs ago and followed the tutorials here on DO to create the ssh keys for my local computer. I logged out and then back in after to make sure it worked and I must have logged out and back in a few times after that.

Today however when I run ‘ssh myusername@myserverip’ nothing happens, the cursor moves to a new line and just sites there, no error message is given and Im not prompted to do anything else. Ive tried new terminals as well as restarting and still the same. I can see the .ssh folder in my main user directory on my computer (ubuntu) and in that there are the following files

known_hosts my-ssh-key my-ssh-key.pub

these all seem to have the keys in too.

What is the problem here?

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Ian Mitchell

September 10, 2018

Monday Sept 10 – just to confirm a simple solution to SSH not working with Firewall

Firewall will not allow SSH login unless the firewall has been set to allow SSH. To set the firewall correctly : login to droplet sudo ufw disable sudo ufw allow ssh sudo ufw enable

The sudo app list does not change. BUT the SSH login (eg via Putty using SSH keys) will then work fine. For me this has only happened with 16.04