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CoreOS is configured to only accept connections using SSH keys, not passwords. The default user is core So you would connect to your droplet using:
ssh core@your.droplet.ip
The -C option to ssh-keygen isn’t necessarily a username. From its man page:
-C comment
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Personally, I use that field to denote the username and computer name of the local computer not the server. So is the key is for my user foo on my personal laptop, I’d create a key with ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "foo@laptop"
Ha, awesome! Thank you asb! You are awesome! “core” vs “root”…told you it was a noob issue!
Thank you again!