CoreOS ssh asks for password

Posted March 11, 2016
Deployment

I’m trying to set up a new coreOS install and when I try to ssh in it asks for the password. Everytime this question is asked the answer is always to use the core user instead of root but I m using core. The command I’m running

ssh core@<droplet ip>

I have another droplet that my ssh keys work with and I added those existing keys when creating my CoreOS droplet.

Thank you for your help, Greg

gmccoy4242

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Jon Schwenn • September 10, 2016

Hi Greg,

You’ll want to make sure that you are using an RSA keypair to log in and not a DSA keypair. That should do the trick.

– Jon

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