Question
Permission denied (publickey) - new machine
Hello,
I am pretty new to this but I have been working on a new machine, and a new job. I have multiple droplets I am supposed to be in charge of and I am having trouble logging in. I do the classic ssh root@IP
and get this root@xxx.xxx.xx.xx: Permission denied (publickey).
I have tried just about everything (resetting root, logging into the console, adding my id_rsa
, adding my key, etc… I think I’ve been through every post in the last couple years that I can find on it. When I run ssh root@IP -v
on one of my testing droplets here is the output:
JArnold-008110:~ jarnold$ ssh root@157.230.11.48 -v
OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/jarnold/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 157.230.11.48 [157.230.11.48] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_rsa type 0
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.9
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.6p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.6p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3 pat OpenSSH_7.0*,OpenSSH_7.1*,OpenSSH_7.2*,OpenSSH_7.3*,OpenSSH_7.4*,OpenSSH_7.5*,OpenSSH_7.6*,OpenSSH_7.7* compat 0x04000002
debug1: Authenticating to 157.230.11.48:22 as 'root'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:LauYrYlhRFEsuWnliV3OLNHRdoNFGHWx/+yVvGdO9PI
debug1: Host '157.230.11.48' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/jarnold/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:NV+19/raPSkndui6/EzFAem14/UO+aUWqQdicJ/h9lc agent
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_xmss
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:NV+19/raPSkndui6/EzFAem14/UO+aUWqQdicJ/h9lc agent
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/jarnold/.ssh/id_xmss
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
root@157.230.11.48: Permission denied (publickey).
Thanks for any help - this is my first couple weeks using DigitalOcean so I am still learning a lot, but this seems like a common question.
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