By bjorgvin
I created a new droplet using “Ruby on Rails on 14.04” and added SSH keys in stead of using root password. When I tried connecting through ssh I got these results :(
$ ssh xxx.xxx.xx.xxx
pc@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx's password: *************
Permission denied, please try again.
pc@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx's password:
Then I tried:
$ ssh root@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx
root@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx's password:
Then I tried:
$ ssh -i /path/to/.ssh/id_rsa_private_key root@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx
root@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx's password:
I’m not sure what to do at this point … can you help me?
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Nothing at all on the internet could help me solve this. In the end what worked was to take these steps:
1 - Resetting the root password from the Digital Ocean website
2 - logging-in using the console in the Digital Ocean website (it will prompt you to choose a different pass)
3 - edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and changing the line PasswordAuthentication no to PasswordAuthentication yes
4 - service ssh reload
5 - Then I could login from my terminal using ssh root@ipaddress and inserting the password
This worked for me:
chmod go-w ~/ chmod 700 ~/.ssh chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
https://www.howtogeek.com/168156/fixing-authentication-refused-bad-ownership-or-modes-for-directory/
I faced the same problem when I used only ssh root@server_ip
then I solved the problem by the using in the following format:
ssh -o “IdentitiesOnly yes” -i ~/.ssh/yourprivate_id root@server-ip
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