By msaharia
I followed this [DO GUIDE](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04
I created a user account and gave it sudo access.
But when I try to copy my ssh keys using ssh-copy-id user@address, I get the following error:
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you are prompted now it is to install the new keys
Permission denied (publickey).
This used to work before. What is the solution?
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This question was answered by @jasonjpeters:
If you’re only looking to log into the remote server using SSH Keys on your machine you can copy your
*.pubkey to the remote server renaming it toauthorized_keys. Once complete as long as the matching key is added to your local key chain Example:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsayou should be able to log into the remote server with no passwd.
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