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Without changing the permissions this error doesn't occur. I'm changing them with:

sudo chmod 700 ~/.ssh
sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

(same steps as in this answer)

server permissions ssh

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  @steeldriver Thanks for the reply It tells me permission denied if I don't use sudo. The authorized_keys is owned by root rw------- 1 root root 744 Aug 11 10:34 authorized_keys
  
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Without changing the permissions this error doesn't occur. I'm changing them with:

sudo chmod 700 ~/.ssh
sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

(same steps as in this answer)

server permissions ssh

share|improve this question

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  Why are you using sudo? are the files owned by root?
  
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  Aug 11 at 11:32
  

  
  
  
  


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  @steeldriver Thanks for the reply It tells me permission denied if I don't use sudo. The authorized_keys is owned by root rw------- 1 root root 744 Aug 11 10:34 authorized_keys
  
  – Twiggeh
  Aug 11 at 16:10
  
  

  
  
  
  

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Without changing the permissions this error doesn't occur. I'm changing them with:

sudo chmod 700 ~/.ssh
sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

(same steps as in this answer)

server permissions ssh

share|improve this question

edited Aug 11 at 11:21

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sudo chmod 700 ~/.ssh
sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

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The problems are that the keys are owned by root.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.ssh
chmod -R 700 ~/.ssh

These two commands will restore ownership to user and set permissions appropriately.

The general rule is that everything in your home directory should be owned by you. In the case of ssh keys, ssh will refuse to work if ownership does not match username, as it may be a security problem.

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  I changed the permissions back with chown after steeldriver asked if they were owned by root and it still didn't work. Turned out that Digital Oceans console doesn't do well with copy pasting - it bummed my key up when I pasted it
  
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In my case the answer was that the console provided by Digital Ocean bummed up my key when I pasted it in. (I don't know why it does that but long strings get scrambled when you paste them).

So the solution for me was to download the key file with curl.

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The problems are that the keys are owned by root.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.ssh
chmod -R 700 ~/.ssh

These two commands will restore ownership to user and set permissions appropriately.

The general rule is that everything in your home directory should be owned by you. In the case of ssh keys, ssh will refuse to work if ownership does not match username, as it may be a security problem.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 12 at 9:22

vidarlovidarlo

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  I changed the permissions back with chown after steeldriver asked if they were owned by root and it still didn't work. Turned out that Digital Oceans console doesn't do well with copy pasting - it bummed my key up when I pasted it
  
  – Twiggeh
  Aug 12 at 10:16
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

1

The problems are that the keys are owned by root.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.ssh
chmod -R 700 ~/.ssh

These two commands will restore ownership to user and set permissions appropriately.

The general rule is that everything in your home directory should be owned by you. In the case of ssh keys, ssh will refuse to work if ownership does not match username, as it may be a security problem.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 12 at 9:22

vidarlovidarlo

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  I changed the permissions back with chown after steeldriver asked if they were owned by root and it still didn't work. Turned out that Digital Oceans console doesn't do well with copy pasting - it bummed my key up when I pasted it
  
  – Twiggeh
  Aug 12 at 10:16
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

The problems are that the keys are owned by root.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.ssh
chmod -R 700 ~/.ssh

These two commands will restore ownership to user and set permissions appropriately.

The general rule is that everything in your home directory should be owned by you. In the case of ssh keys, ssh will refuse to work if ownership does not match username, as it may be a security problem.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 12 at 9:22

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sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.ssh
chmod -R 700 ~/.ssh

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answered Aug 12 at 9:22

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In my case the answer was that the console provided by Digital Ocean bummed up my key when I pasted it in. (I don't know why it does that but long strings get scrambled when you paste them).

So the solution for me was to download the key file with curl.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 12 at 10:20

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In my case the answer was that the console provided by Digital Ocean bummed up my key when I pasted it in. (I don't know why it does that but long strings get scrambled when you paste them).

So the solution for me was to download the key file with curl.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 12 at 10:20

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In my case the answer was that the console provided by Digital Ocean bummed up my key when I pasted it in. (I don't know why it does that but long strings get scrambled when you paste them).

So the solution for me was to download the key file with curl.

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 12 at 10:20

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answered Aug 12 at 10:20

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answered Aug 12 at 10:20

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