Hello,
I manually added my public ssh key to the authorized keys file on my droplet, but i am not sure exactly how i can access the server from my local shell as it keeps prompting me to enter a password when i try to ssh root@<ip.address> . I have reloaded the ssh and rebooted the droplet; any advice would be appreciated!
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Try running it with the “-v” flag: <br> <br><pre> <br>ssh -v root@your.ip.address <br></pre> <br> <br>It should provide some information that might help figure out what is going on here. Could you paste the part that beginning with something like: <br> <br><pre> <br>debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password <br></pre>
Heres what i got from the debug, thanks so much for that useful command! <br> <br>debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password <br>debug1: Next authentication method: publickey <br>debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/coreykepple/.ssh/id_rsa <br>debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password <br>debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/coreykepple/.ssh/github_rsa <br>debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password <br>debug1: Trying private key: /Users/coreykepple/.ssh/id_dsa <br>debug1: Next authentication method: password
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