Problem with adduser, permission denied (publickey).

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_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