By hello391564
Good evening! I saw there are a lot of quesitons regarding this, but I did not found a solution. I have added “deploy” user and added key to authorized_keys - and was able to actually login with SSH using this key, but all of a sudden server is now prompting for a password again!
The only thing I did, I think, was creating another key (generating) on a server side (I need to to access other server), this process has created known_hosts file. I’m not sure if I was locked out of logging in with SSH key at this point or something else is causing this issue.
Please, adivce ASAP
Thank you!
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I too am facing same difficulty. My client PC is Win10 with Bash/WSL.
If I connect to my DO thru bash, it connects ok with ssh keys without any password demand. But if using the same keys, I try to login thru WindowsPowerShell, it demands the root password before letting me login.
I’m too facing same difficulty. I’m able to connect to/login to my remote host (DO droplet) from my windows pc’s WinScp. But I’m not able to connect thru Bash. It asks for password.
And during trying diff things, I tried to restart my ssh service on remote host, but that didn’t work and now my ssh service also has stopped on remote host (won’t start even with a reboot of the remote host). Pls help. I don’t want to reimage my droplet.
Try, on your computer (client) to delete contents of ~/.ssh/known_hosts and then ssh into your server.
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