By Duc Duong
I created my first CoreOS droplet, put my ssh public key there.
When I went to Console Access from my account, it asked for login, entered root, then it asked for password. I don’t have a password because I created the droplet with SSH key.
Same thing happened when trying to ssh from my local machine.
I even tried to destroy and recreate the droplet, but it doesn’t help.
Any thought?
Thanks.
DD
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Hello, there
As per the other comments, the user should be "core"and not “root”
You can ssh to the droplet with the following command:
- ssh core@DropletIP
If you want to specify the ssh-key you can also use the -iargument:
- ssh -i ~/.ssh/ssh-key core@DropletIP
Regards, Alex
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