Question
Permission Denied (PublicKey)
Hey there. For starters, I am a total noob to server set up. What I need to do is set up SSH log in to my VPS. For reference, I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I used PuttyGen to make my key.
I connected my public key with my DigitalOcean account, and so my new server was made with an SSH included. I have two questions: What are the details that I would need to send someone to allow them to log into my server with SSH?
And finally, whenever I try to log into my server with SSH from a console, by doing a command like: ssh MYIPADDRESS, it says PublicKey Denied. I am able to connect with my private key no problem, but I know that i should not share that and so I must find otherways to connect. Any help is appreciated, thank you.
So basically, I can connect with Putty using private key, but cannot connect any other way!
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Here is my debug log when I do ssh -v MYIP
root@MollyBabesHost:~# ssh -v 159.203.22.31
OpenSSH6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/sshconfig
debug1: /etc/ssh/sshconfig line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 159.203.22.31 [159.203.22.31] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: permanentlysetuid: 0/0
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/idrsa type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/idrsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/iddsa type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/iddsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/idecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/idecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/ided25519 type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/ided25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu2.10
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH6.6.1p1 Ubu ntu-2ubuntu2.10
debug1: match: OpenSSH6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu2.10 pat OpenSSH6.6.1* compat 0x04 000000
debug1: SSH2MSGKEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2MSGKEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com none
debug1: sending SSH2MSGKEXECDHINIT
debug1: expecting SSH2MSGKEXECDHREPLY
debug1: Server host key: ECDSA 1c:5b:04:f7:15:5f:6d:96:e0:a3:92:dc:66:ed:ab:9f
debug1: Host ‘159.203.22.31’ is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/knownhosts:1
debug1: sshecdsaverify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2MSGNEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2MSGNEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2MSGNEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2MSGSERVICEREQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2MSGSERVICEACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/idrsa
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/iddsa
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/idecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/ided25519
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).