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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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.
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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