[Cialug] SSH says: Permission denied (publickey).

[David Champion]

Glad that helped. Using ssh -v will save your bacon when you're
troubleshooting problems.

-dc


On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 3:55 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:17 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Try doing "ssh -v me at newhost", compare that to "ssh -v me at oldhost" and
> see
> > what it's doing differently.
>
> Doing that, I see everything the same up until this point:
>
>      debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
>
> That's what it says for the old server. For the new server it says:
>
>      debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
>
> So... that would be a problem. And indeed, PasswordAuthentication was
> set to no. I swear I checked that three times!
>
> > On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:10 AM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I thought you needed your public key stored in the ~/.ssh folder in
> order
> > > to use private key authentication.
>
> You do. It goes in the authorized_keys file. When I did ssh-copy-id it
> stored the key and then I was able to log in using my private key. But
> the problem is that people should be able to get onto this server
> using a password.
>
> --
> Todd
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