After creating a user (logged in as root) and trying to log in, I get “permission denied (publickey).”
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Hi there @tcp,
What you have to do first is:
-
SSH to the Droplet as
root -
Create a new user:
- adduser your_user
- Add the new user to the sudoers group:
- usermod -aG sudo your_user
- Copy the root account’s
~/.ssh/authorized_keysto your new user’s home directory so that you could ssh as your new user:
- rsync --archive --chown=your_user:your_user ~/.ssh /home/sammy
Note: change the your_user:your_user part with your actual username.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
Strange… still the same "Permission denied. (publickey).
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