By pliago
Hello,
I am a new user. I created an sshkey as the guide suggesteda and I added the public key while I was creating the droplet.
The problem is when I try to connect using “ssh root@(ipadress)” it still asks for a root password which I do not have.
Thank you
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As indicated in the CoreOS documentation and in the tutorials on DigitalOcean, the user you should be using is not ‘root’ but ‘core’.
Hello, there
As per the other comments, the user should be "core"and not “root”
You can ssh to the droplet with the following command:
- ssh core@DropletIP
If you want to specify the ssh-key you can also use the -iargument:
- ssh -i ~/.ssh/ssh-key core@DropletIP
Regards, Alex
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