Why I can't loggin with putty

Posted on March 20, 2017

I created a droplets ,it is centos and with the SSH key; but i can’t login by the putty with my private key.

Using username “root”. Server refused our key Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password:

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gitgab

March 22, 2017

Alright, this is the way I solved it:

1.- Paste your PUBLIC ssh key in http://pastebin.com and get the raw version of your paste, example: http://pastebin.com/raw/Xb1PY53SD (If you dont remember your public key, simply load your private key into PuTTYgen and copy the content that says “public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file”)

2.- Then login to the online console and find your authorized_keys file, it is by default in “~/.ssh/authorized_keys” (the ~ stands for your HOME enviroment variable in my case it is “/root”)

3.- In the folder where is your authorized_keys file execute this command: wget ' http://pastebin.com/raw/your_raw_id' -O authorized_keys (remember to replace the raw pastebin link with your own)

Hope it helps