By jackouttabox
Hello, i’ve followed this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-filezilla-to-transfer-and-manage-files-securely-on-your-vps and this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-ssh-keys-with-putty-to-connect-to-a-vps but i cant connect via putty or filezilla it gives me the same error. If you need more info please let me know.
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Ouch dude. This is something that happened to me too often.
First off, try pinging your server. Does it respond? Assuming it does, hop on your VNC access and run:
/usr/bin/ssh status
If it responds with:
[ ok ] ssh is running
then you’re having a bad day. Check /var/log/auth.log, does it say anything about turning you down for not having an SSH key?
If it doesn’t, please provide your history (either run “history > history.txt” or “cat ~/.bash_history > history.txt”) and Paste it. There’s a bunch of possibilities, ranging from things as simple as chmoding incorrectly.
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