I created a user named meteor, and want to login to my droplet using a key for user meteor. What I did was: login as root then create user meteor created /home/meteor/.ssh copied my keyfile.pub to /home/meteor/.ssh (same key used for root user) chown meteor:meteor keyfile.pub I still can’t ssh into the droplet with user meteor. It gives me the following error:meteor@. .. : Permission denied (publickey). What am I missing?

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Non-Root user SSH login

Posted on March 26, 2019

Ubuntu 18.04

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By nswarm

I created a user named meteor, and want to login to my droplet using a key for user meteor. What I did was:

login as root then create user meteor
created /home/meteor/.ssh
copied my keyfile.pub to /home/meteor/.ssh (same key used for root user)
chown meteor:meteor keyfile.pub

I still can’t ssh into the droplet with user meteor. It gives me the following error: meteor@...: Permission denied (publickey).

What am I missing?

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jarland

March 26, 2019

Greetings!

No worries, you’re almost there. Just a small change. In /home/meteor/.ssh you need an authorized_keys file. Your public key should be pasted as one line in the authorized_keys file, and you should have the private key from the same pair on your local system. That should have you up and running :)

Jarland