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unable to login to freebsd droplet via ssh

Posted March 25, 2015 8.6k views
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I am starting out in digital ocean. I have set up a freebsd droplet, but my digitalocean.com credentials are not working for login with ssh. I have not received an email with information. I did set up an rsa key
Please point me to a getting started tutorial.

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  • podamantium November 16, 2016
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    Make sure there is no white space in your key where there shouldn’t be any. I noticed that when I copy and pasted my public key I had breaks in the encrypted string as well as in my e-mail. Unfortunately unlike other services like GitHub, which handle bad copy and paste jobs well, Digital Ocean’s wizard does not. Once I fixed my key I was able to log in over SSH.

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toydestroyer March 25, 2015

To connect to your FreeBSD droplet you should only use ssh-keys and initial user freebsd.
Please read more here

How To Configure SSH Key-Based Authentication on a FreeBSD Server
by Mitchell Anicas
SSH, or secure shell, is a network protocol that provides a secure, encrypted way to communicate with and administer your servers. As SSH is the most common way of working with a FreeBSD server, you will want to familiarize yourself with the different ways that you can authenticate and log in to your server. While there are several ways of logging into a FreeBSD server, this tutorial will focus on setting up and using SSH keys for authentication.
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gutiersa March 25, 2015

I added a key when I created the droplet, but I am still getting asked for a password. I am trying to access my droplet with putty from an Windows 8.1 computer.

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  • toydestroyer March 25, 2015

    Your digitalocean.com credentials shouldn’t be working for ssh connection. There is only way to connect to your droplet using freebsd as username and ssh-key.

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gutiersa March 25, 2015

I tried using freebsd as username. I dont have a password.

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tomica March 25, 2015

To access your DigitalOcean FreeBSD droplet you have to use SSH private/public key combination. You can do that easily with:

ssh -i pathtoyour/privatekey freebsd@IPaddressofyourdroplet

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  • gutiersa March 25, 2015

    I actually have a freebsd box. I tried your suggestion and this is what I got:

    ssh: connect to host myhostname.com port 22: Operation timed out

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HeathRiley March 25, 2015

Applicable tutorials in FreeBSD series:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-get-started-with-freebsd-10-1

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-ssh-key-based-authentication-on-a-freebsd-server

FreeBSD Series:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/getting-started-with-freebsd

Basic SSH tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-connect-to-your-droplet-with-ssh

List of SSH Tutorials:
SSH-related Tutorials on DigitalOcean

To reiterate, for SSH, do not use your Digital Ocean Credentials. In ssh, use the user <freebsd/>, and the key itself.

If you used a password when generating the key, enter that password. The key can be generated with or without a password.

The wording of your question leads the reader to believe that you are attempting to ssh using the same credentials that you log into https://cloud.digitalocean.com with.

You would need to use the differences based on the information

How To Get Started with FreeBSD 10.1
by Justin Ellingwood
FreeBSD is a secure, high-performance operating system that is suitable for a variety of server roles. In this guide, we will cover some basic information about how to get started with a FreeBSD server.
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  • gutiersa March 25, 2015

    Thanks. I have already looked at these tutorials. I will do it again. Just to clarify, I am not a linux user. I use a Windows 8.1 pc. I use putty and putty-gen. I did add an rsa key to my freebsd server upon creation. When I try to login via putty, I have tried freebsd as the user. The ssh terminal still asks me for a password. Am I supposed to input the key itself instead of a password??

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gutiersa March 25, 2015

thanks for your replies

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gutiersa March 25, 2015

I figured it out. I had not given putty the location of my private key. Till now I had always used putty with password only.

thanks for your help.

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