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Error on connecting droplet with SSH

Posted October 3, 2018 770

Ghost One-Click Install Apps Ubuntu 18.04

i got this error when connecting to droplet via SSH

signandsend_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation
Permission denied (publickey).

how to solve this?

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azyhan96

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unixynet October 4, 2018

Try specifying the key when connecting like this:

ssh -i /path/to/ssh.key user@ip

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azyhan96 October 4, 2018

on my machine’s terminal or using the droplet’s console?
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- unixynet October 4, 2018
  
  Not the console. But wherever you have the SSH key saved so you can reference it as in the above command.
  
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