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I can't connect ssh from the terminal on my Linux Mint PC, why?

Posted January 10, 2015 4.4k views

Hello, i followed the tutorial here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-digitalocean-droplets but when arrive on *Step Four—Spin Up a New Server* i can’t do anything, password is not read and i have the message “Permission denied, please try again” but password is correct, because on DO console it works !!
Can you help me?
thanks

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vps January 10, 2015

When you create the server make sure you click on the the correct key in “ADD optional SSH keys”

If all is correct it should use the ssh key to login. Root password SHOULD NOT be emailed to you in this instance.

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Polv89 January 10, 2015

I have created the droplet from a snapshot..and in the previous snapshot i used ssh
Now i make a snapshot and create a new server with SSH keys

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Polv89 January 10, 2015

Now i have this message “Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.” when trying to login using SSH

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