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:
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- adduser your_user
- usermod -aG sudo your_user
~/.ssh/authorized_keys to 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
Hi Bobby!
Thanks for replying, I’m totally new at this so every suggestion is worth a lot to me!
How do I copy the root account’s keys to my new user, easiest?
Thx,
Zeke
Hi there @tcp,
You can do that by running the following command:
- sudo rsync --archive --chown=your_user:your_user /root/.ssh /home/sammy
Note: change sammy with your actual user name.
Let me know how it goes!
Regards,
Bobby
It seems my answer got “arrested” xd
No, that doesn’t change anything unfortunately.
//Zeke
Hi there Zeke,
Can you share the output of the following command:
- ls -l /home/your_user/.ssh
I think that maybe the permissions of the authorized_keys file are too open. You could try to change them with the following command and try again:
- sudo chmod 600 /home/your_user/.ssh/authorized_keys
And also the same for your .ssh folder:
- sudo chmod 700 /home/your_user/.ssh
Let me know how it goes!
Regards,
Bobby
Hi there @tcp,
Can you share the output of the following command:
- ls -l /home/your_user/.ssh
I think that maybe the permissions of the authorized_keys file are too open. You could try to change them with the following command and try again:
- sudo chmod 600 /home/your_user/.ssh/authorized_keys
And also the same for your .ssh folder:
- sudo chmod 700 /home/your_user/.ssh
Let me know how it goes!
Regards,
Bobby
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Hi @bobbyiliev
Thank you so much for reaching out and helping me and sorry for the late reply.
I did solve it, I had ssh pw instead of one pw when creating the droplet ;)
Thx again and have a nice day
Hi there Zeke,
No problem at all! Happy to hear that you’ve got this working!
Regards,
Bobby