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