1. I created a new Ubuntu droplet. 2. I added the SSH key (Public) 3. From Terminal on OS X: (following the tutorial) 4. Then, ssh root@IP where IP = public IP of the droplet 4. ERROR: Permission denied (publickey). Any ideas?

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Steve1

SSH into Ubuntu

December 16, 2017 311

DigitalOcean Ubuntu 16.04

Any ideas?

1 Answer

jasonjpeters December 17, 2017

On your OSX machine you need to load your Identity file. This can be done two ways.

Defining the file in your ssh command ssh -i /path/to/id_file username@host Example: ssh -i /Users/jondoe/.ssh/id_rsa root@mydomain.com
Adding the file to your ssh-agent - ssh-add /path/to/id_file Example: ssh-add /Users/jondoe/.ssh/id_rsa

Note: If you get an ssh-agent error, enter: eval `ssh-agent` before #2

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