Dear !!
I created droplet 2 weeks ago.
I followed the using ssh guide, creating ssh key, adding ssh key for security on digitalocean.
I have logined the system everyday since setup.
But Today I try . : ssh root@IP address, I found the following message.
Permission denied (publickey).
I searched all question, but not working.
Please help me.
I had same issue couple days ago. My problem was name of public key, I just rename public key to id_rsa and it works again.
Try with ssh -vvv root@IP address and see what is your problem with login.
When I try this command : ssh -vvv root@IP address,
debug2: key: /Users/happy/.ssh/idrsa (0x7fe651412070), explicit, agent
debug3: send packet: type 5
debug3: receive packet: type 7
debug1: SSH2MSGEXTINFO received
debug1: kexinputextinfo: server-sig-algs=<rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512>
debug3: receive packet: type 6
debug2: serviceaccept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2MSGSERVICEACCEPT received
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethodlookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethodisenabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/happy/.ssh/idrsa
debug3: sendpubkey_test
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).
I had same issue & I found this link.
https://medium.com/@hidace/how-to-ssh-into-a-digitalocean-server-after-getting-permission-denied-publickey-error-77b687c2880d
When I created my very first droplet, I encountered the same error.
The solution was:
Hope it helps.
Vu
Do you have multiple ssh-keys on your computer?
you might wanna check if you have added your ssh key to your agent with ‘ssh-add -L’
I’m having a very similar experience, except I’m not sure I ever managed to log in! Everything ends in Permission denied (publickey). e.g.
ssh-copy-id oolong@[my IP address]
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you are prompted now it is to install the new keys
Permission denied (publickey).
I’m using Mint, fwiw.
Thanks for your advice.
Did you manage the problem?
I have a same result, “Permission denied (publickey).”
Sincerely.
Probably, it can be useful to know.
If you copy private key on to you PC, for instance, after system reinstall, make sure that you have added key correctly.
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
I’m getting the same thing. I’m running Ubuntu with Ruby on Rails. Trying to connect via iTerm on mac.
have same problem , any news? i copy the pub key i generated via git bash then i did ssh root@etc but dosnt work… says same Permission denied (publickey) for root
Hello there. Any updates with this question?
I ran into the same issue today.
I have used my ssh key for few weeks.. and it worked fine. But today I can’t enter to my droplet.
I use ssh root@<droplet_ip> and every time get Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
Even if I use ssh root@<droplet_ip> -i path/to/my/key it doesn’t work.
I checked everything. I checked that ssh-add -L gets my public key and file on droplet /root/.ssh/authorized_keys (through browser Console access) has the same value. Seems everything is ok. But it doesn’t work now. I don’t know why. Maybe the problem on my side… but what exactly?
Today I finally fixed it.
I entered on droplet through Control Access via browser. And then changed on server file /etc/ssh/sshd_config next lines:
1) PasswordAuthentication yes
2) PermitRootLogin yes
3) PubkeyAuthentication yes
4) AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
And then restarted sshd by : systemctl restart sshd
Now it works.. I don’t know why it happened and is my solution safe for droplet.. but it works.
Thank you very much!
The fourth step was commented out in my sshd_config file. Uncommenting it and restart sshd solved my problem.
I created droplet today but i can’t access with ssh.
when i run: ssh user@ip_addr
it return Permission denied (publickey).
what can i do to solve that?