Hello everyone, it’s my first time working with Digital Ocean. I’ve already created my droplet with ubuntu 16, created my SSH keys on Mac and included in the droplet. But I can’t login using SSH without including the private key path:
ssh root@DROPLET_IP -i /path/to/private_key
If the path to private key is included I can log in, otherwise the public key is denied.
Can anyone help me?
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Where is your private key located? By default, ssh looks for a key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa. It sounds like your key is stored somewhere else, so that’s why you’re unable to connect without explicitly specifying the path to your key.
You can either move/copy your SSH key to that path, use ssh-agent, or modify the config file ~/.ssh/config to include the existing path:
Host *
IdentityFile /path/to/private_key
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