Answer by mirekphd for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
In general the quickest way to understand the reason of refused SSH connections is to inspect the SSH server log (assuming you can access the log without the tested SSH connection):sudo systemctl...
View ArticleAnswer by t7e for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Another causes for this error are:Incorrect user in ssh -i id_rsa [user]@[yourLinode]Outdated SSH RSA key. OpenSSH v8 deprecated RSA algorithm by default.Regenerate your keys with: ssh-keygen -t...
View ArticleAnswer by Benny for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Owner permission for the ~/.ssh directory, should contain your username.chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER/.sshNote: Make sure $USER is your correct username (not root).
View ArticleAnswer by bomben for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
I had added a wrong key to the server. Because I did not use the command with an option to specify a certain key it added the standard key-file.Make sure you did use ssh-copy-id -i CORRECT_KEY.pubThis...
View ArticleAnswer by LpLrich for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Some people wondering may have set up ssh access to be key only on the root account then created a new user and not realised they need to ssh root@your-ip-addressrsync --archive --chown=[user]:[user]...
View ArticleAnswer by Galapagos for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Works on Ubuntu 16.04 as well. The issue is within sshd_config fileHere is the ULTIMATE solution:Log as as a root to you Ubuntu servervi /etc/ssh/sshd_configNow go to very bottom and change the value...
View ArticleAnswer by anask for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
The following method might work if you can access machineA and machineB independently (e.g. from machineC). If ssh-copy-id is not working, password authentication could be disabled. The following is a...
View ArticleAnswer by Glutanimate for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
In my case the issue was caused by copying over an .ssh directory from an older machine. Turns out that my older SSH config was using DSA keys which have since been deprecated. Switching to a new pair...
View ArticleAnswer by Teemu Leisti for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
I had the same problem as described in the question. The output from executing ssh -vvv -i id_rsa [youruser]@[yourLinode] on the client machine was similar to that described in the question. I checked...
View ArticleAnswer by mau for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
This is what worked for me, the fix is not mine but I would rather write it down here in case someone else has the same problem.The original author posted it here:...
View ArticleAnswer by Alex Punnen for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
For those Putty users like me who came to this thread, you may also get this error if you forgot to add user user@Ip !Others being permission on key file chmod to 600)ssh 1.1.1.1 -i /path/to/.pem file...
View ArticleAnswer by iman for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Also check value of PasswordAuthentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and if it's no change it to yes. Don't forget to restart ssh service after that.
View ArticleAnswer by Todd for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
The problem I had was it was using the wrong keys on the client. I had renamed id_rsa and id_rsa.pub to something else.You can either rename them back to their default, or when you issue the ssh...
View ArticleAnswer by site80443 for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
I had the same issue when copying a regular user's (e.g. johndoe) public key from a cPanel Centos system over to an Ubuntu server on AWS. As suggested by gertvdijk above, I checked /var/log/auth.log...
View ArticleAnswer by Kent for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
I my case, the client is ubuntu 14.04lts, the server was win 2012 server running cygwin. I was using 'ssh administrator@x.x.x.x', when the 2012 server directory in cygwin was /home/Administrator. So it...
View ArticleAnswer by Buzut for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Sometimes the issue comes from permissions and ownership. For instance, if you want to log in as root, /root, .ssh and authorized_keys must belong to root. Otherwise, sshd won't be able to read them...
View ArticleAnswer by cmbind55 for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Another possible cause could be with the AllowedUsers configuration in /etc/ssh/sshd_conf. NOTE: the list is space delimited (not comma delimited) as I learned the hard way.AllowUsers user1 user2 user3
View ArticleAnswer by canoodle for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
Also make sure that the user's home directory (on the server) actually belongs to the user ssh'ing into (was set to root:root in my case).Should have been:sudo chown username:username /home/username;
View ArticleAnswer by biocyberman for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
If all else failed, check that your login user belongs to the ssh's AllowedGroup. That is, your users is a member of the group shown at the following line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the...
View ArticleAnswer by Justin C for SSH Permission denied (publickey)
I ran into this issue recently with my web server.I typically keep a list of authorized keys on all my servers in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. From my experience, sshd will look for ~/.ssh/authorized_keys...
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