Question

I cannot SSH to my new droplet

I just created a new droplet with a public key, but when I tried to ssh to the server, I get public key permission error. The server I am trying to get into is: 138.68.8.16

Thank you in advance!

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KFSys • October 16, 2019

Hi @voltrue2,

It’s possible the key is not correct anymore or something is missing.

I’ll recommend you to take the key from the following file

cat ~/.ssh/id_pub.rsa

And put the contents on your droplet in the following place manually

vi ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Once you have, you should be able to login without a problem.

Regards, KDSys

alexdo • October 16, 2019

Hello, @voltrue2

I would recommend you to check this two articles as they should help you to sort this out:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2 https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/

Let me know if you have any questions.