Unable to SFTP in via Filezilla.

June 22, 2017 4.4k views
DigitalOcean Ubuntu 16.04
davidmarsh
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davidmarsh

Hi,

I am a total noob but (thanks to this forum) I managed to set up my first droplet, install everything I needed, set up a key pair and and connect and upload via FileZilla.

So I was expecting my second stab at this to be a piece of cake…

Wrong!

Having already created my RSA key pair for droplet 1, I simply ticked the SSH Key box when I created droplet 2.

Via the terminal, everything works fine - I can SSH/SFTP in no problem.

But when connecting through FileZilla I just get ‘Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)’.

Clearly I’ve skipped a vital step this time round but after four hours of Googling I am no nearer figuring out what the heck that is.

Can anyone help?

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kamaln7 MOD June 22, 2017

Hi!

Did you add your SSH key to FileZilla? You can do that in Settings→Connection→SFTP. More detailed instructions with screenshots here.

If you’re on Linux or macOS, your SSH key is most likely located at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.

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davidmarsh June 22, 2017

That worked! Thanks!

Am confused as to how I am already able to connect to my first droplet without ever having done this previously?

Any ideas on that?

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  • hansen June 23, 2017

    Hi @davidmarsh
    That’s not possible - or you setup your first droplet using password instead of keys?
    Or FileZilla perhaps integrates into PuTTY and snooped the key automatically?

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