By Ian Efford
I am trying to setup a server for my wordpress site. I was going through this tutorial (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04) to setup ssh keys. After step five when it says to try logging in with the ssh keys with the newly created user putty returns back with a error saying: “No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)” I put the public key in the authorized_keys file and everything the tutorial said but it still returns that error. If I try logging in to root with the same private key it works fine. It just shows that error when I try logging in with the new user.
Any help would be appreciated.
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This: “No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)” happened to me after I turned on Microsoft One Drive backup and sync for my files including the directory where I save my ssh key. In my case the solution is simple: just go to Putty => SSH => Auth and just (re)browse again to my same key and save, then it worked. It looks backup and sync software such as Microsoft One Drive (and may be the same with Google Drive), affect the way Putty sees and identifies directories if the key directory is specified then later installing or turning on backup and sync including that directory.
The public key generated by puttygen cannot be used directly on Ubuntu you need to change its format as mentioned here
Hope this helps
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