I have ubuntu 16.04 I have disabled root login. I have a user with sudo.
I made an ssh authentication key pair: I tried to scp my public key but was told that the file doesnt exist. I copied the public key to text edit on my mac. I pasted it into a file I created in .ssh called authorized_keys. A file called authorized also appeared. I changed the permissions in sshd_config to allow authorized keys and not allow password login. I chmod 400 authorized keys and authorized. I chmod 700 .ssh
The long and the short of it is that I cant get into my server, no password, no root, no keys, I dont even get aske for my phrase.
I hope I’m not completely stuffed cos I really dont want to destroy my droplet and start again.
Any ideas? In case its not painfully obvious I am a complete noob and just working from a book so super easy answers would be appreciated.
Thanks all
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Hey @sfrasera70137b785a5be62b45 !
I hope you didn’t disable root login first, then created a user and gave it sudo perms :S Always try to test new implementations before removing old ones.
Anyway, it looks like you misunderstood the way SSH keys work. In short:
- On the remote server, you will have a public key inside ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. This file will be used to check if you may be authenticated.
- On your personal client, you need to have a private key (id-rsa). This key will be used to authenticate with the remote server.
You should not chmod the authorized_keys with 400. Try to use the following:
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
If you like to follow it, I have a tutorial made for this: Setting up SSH keys on Debian. It’s a tutorial for Debian but works on ubuntu as well. The only thing that changes is restarting the ssh service:
service ssh restart
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