Fix for SSH Permission Denied (Public Key)

[@codewithsusan]

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[@ashwanimehta721]

I was stucked in this step from last 2 days and after seeing this video i did it in less than 5 mins. Words not enough to thank you @Susan.

[@HaykapSupays]

Thank you Susan, I had checked 100 tutorials and your explanation was the only one that could finally help me solve my issue.

[@adityapalwankar1386]

Susan, words won't be enough to thank you on how amazing this tutorial is! So informative, so many positives. To begin with the way you explained, managed, wow! + you solved my problems in less then 15 mins, I have been googling for 60 mins! Thank you

[@codewithsusan]

So happy it helped, @Aditya! 🙂

[@jhbk5]

I was stuck on this issue for days. Thank you so much for not only creating a clear tutorial, but also explaining what was causing the error.

[@ChrisEj_The_Broly]

You are a true Pro Susan, i had two days of turmoil trying to hit my head on the wall to find this. New subscriber here 😊

[@montaviusbip]

I was starting to lose my mind trying to figure this out! You are a life saver, thank you!

[@codewithsusan]

You're welcome, glad it helped!

[@sheyig346]

Losing my mind right now

[@zacharymcneely6039]

@@sheyig346mee too lol

[@ankithshetty1153]

Thank you so much for your help with the authentication problem! I was stuck on this issue for a whole day, and your video provided the clear and effective solution I needed. I really appreciate your time and effort in making such valuable content. You’ve saved me a lot of frustration-thanks again! ❤

[@jeffrisdon2803]

Hi all I figured it out! for some reason I had to use this line to create the publiv and private IDs ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your email addy goes here". That worked!

[@FR-vr2hd]

Hi Susan, Thanks for the awesome tutorial. It solved the issue that I was grappling with for the past 3+ days. None of the other tutorials even come close to what and how you have described the issue and its resolution. Thanks

[@justiny.2515]

I'm so glad I had this issue, because now after watching your video, I finally have a decent understanding of how ssh works. Thank you :)

[@codewithsusan]

Awesome :)

[@tejasatyanarayana]

I never thought it could be my cloud providers mistake I am finally able to connect to my VM Thank you

[@codewithsusan]

Glad you got it sorted out!

[@912stable]

I love this video. Thank you, Susan. You're more helpful than the folks at DO!

[@MercelSantos]

For sure, that is the best explanation about this subject ever. You saved hours of searching time. Thanks a lot. :)

[@donlee9193]

You know. I usually don't like videos much. But you solved a problem that was making me frustrate. Thank you

[@rupeshkl892]

Step by step instructions, which is required for a beginner and that is what you have take us through. Thank you and will follow you..!! HIGH FIVE🤟👏

[@Raventice]

Thank you so much this tutorial helped me debug my project and with how long I've been stuck on it I was starting to lose it 😭❤

[@KaWinchester]

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[@ghulamzilani237]

It's a very useful vedio those who have facing permission denied error. Thank you very much Ma'am

[@selehadinseid2958]

thank you you have no idea how much time it toke but after trying every thing I have seen your video it was vary clear and straight forwarded it was help full.

[@codewithsusan]

You're welcome - glad you found it helpful!

[@f1aziz]

Thank you. Adding my current pub key fixed the issue. Note to anyone using Proxmox Hypervisor for VMs: We can inject ssh keys into the vm, through the Cloud-init option.

[@hiddenpcmaster]

Best clear, concise explanation on the internet! Thank you!

[@codewithsusan]

High praise - thank you!

[@EsDlite]

Finally a video with a voice over!

[@caesare1968]

Excellent article, I had been looking for this for days, thanks a lot

[@_devdoug]

Thanks Susan, you help me a lot your last method. Greetings from Brazil.

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it helped!

[@ahmeedev]

A bundle of thanks, you saved my time. Carry on helping the community ma'am. Best of luck 🤞

[@codewithsusan]

Happy to help!

[@sergiomancera9225]

Very helpful. Thank you for making these troubleshooting guides for servers. Greetings from México!!

[@spot1401]

This helped me a bunch since both on my phone (termux) and my laptop, there was no config file generated. One file, one line -- solved. Thank you :)

[@yutigi]

Thank you for guiding us Susan.

[@PKASIMARK]

Much love from Kenya. I found this so helpful!

[@hemathkumar4040]

Susan its wonderfull explanation. My circleci CICD integration successfully done.

[@mamotivated]

This was a very useful video btw. Editing the config file helped me to solve my issue on runpod. Thanks

[@ofabiosm]

thats the best video on the entire internet, thank you!

[@OrangeHat21]

Wonderful job Susan! You just saved my life! Thank you!

[@sinalisuvinya4330]

Thank you so much I owe you my degree!!!!much love

[@gwenaellebourhis976]

Thanks Susan for this really clear video !

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it was helpful!

[@RamakrishnaT-s3h]

nice explanation

[@diceman2k8]

Thanks Susan! This was very helpful

[@nilsongomez7827]

Hello, I have been trying to access the SSH through a VPS to configure wireguard but I am getting an error message, Permission denied (Publickey,password) I have checked if the keys are a match and they are. Don’t know what to do.

[@haitech1994]

Thank you for the content, this has been a struggle to set the ssh with digital ocean and your content help a lot and I learnt new stuff about ssh. What about the add ssh key feature from the control panel of digital ocean why it doesn't work?

[@codewithsusan]

It's possible you're using the DigitalOcean "add a SSH key" feature that simply allows you to store a key with your DigitalOcean account that can automatically be added to new servers whenever they're created. This is different than adding keys to existing servers.

[@shahidkhan-saladguy]

Love you Susan.... I was struggling since 3 days thanks alot

[@codewithsusan]

Glad the struggle is over :)

[@ClashRoyale-pt9zj]

thanks a lot!!! i was with trouble cause of custom name: i hadn't had a config file on my .ssh dir on windows with "IdentityFile [path-to-private-key]". THANK YOU

[@mandeepmails]

Very helpful video. Thanks Susan.

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it was helpful!

[@evisiongroup24]

Thank you. It helped a lot. It just worked as expected

[@vijetakumar7347]

Great explanation. Fixed my same issue with clear understanding.

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it was helpful; thanks for watching.

[@hypolyxa7207]

My problem was not having a username in front of the machine I wanted to connect to (RPI) as I had changed the SD card and the username was not the same. Probably would not have noticed that if I didn't see you entered username first. :D Thanks for the video!

[@pablocosta7181]

thanks sussan!!!

[@thegoodlifewatch]

when i open the .ssh from the server, my public key is already there, but i still get access denied.

[@rothadapravith7657]

Glad I found this solution

[@christiancornel4636]

Thank you for this one. now i understand how SSH to be fixed

[@muzikmyke3008]

Best video I've found. Thank you! Fixed my issue.

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it helped!

[@redneckcommie]

so what if there's just nothing listed in my authorized_keys directory?

[@gabrielpatrick6923]

This is very helpful, well articulated.

[@JobinAj-e7x]

In EC2 Ubuntu Instance Create a new user and SSH Key pair with an authorized key how do i do that im a bit confused can you help

[@SanthoshHugar]

Very well explained. Thanks. It helped me.

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it helped!

[@alvarorodriguezgomez8716]

nice vid, what if the folder which point to the config is instead /etc/sshh and not ~/.ssh?

[@codewithsusan]

Are you saying your config file is located in /etc/ssh or that the line within the config file that identifies the SSH key is pointing to /etc/ssh?

[@laurelineparis5407]

Great video, explanation. Concise and accurate. Thanks for sharing such content🙌

[@tilltheend6634]

Pls please i have two kali on vmware bridged mod i have the good pubkeys good permissions ssh is active i can ping ssh is up when nmap i use the right private key but the error message when I try ssh is showing me the wrong finger print and its always the i have the good sshd_config too pubkeyauth yes

[@codewithsusan]

Regarding the wrong fingerprint - is the issue described in this video what you're seeing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5LWYn6ooqijock ?

[@fejiobbdo]

absolute lifesaver, thanks a lot

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it helped!

[@SayeGhaderi]

Thank you. Awesome Job 🎉

[@alexyapyap74]

thank you very much for a very good explanation!

[@mcfincher29]

This saved me a lot of frustration. I couldn't find anything on google describing my issue, but I was missing the config file in ~/.ssh... Problem solved. Thank you so much

[@harikrishna3258]

Thank You very much Susan! It helped me fix the issue

[@codewithsusan]

Glad it helped!

[@saviouressien1317]

Awesome, clear and concise tutorial.

[@muhamadridwanfirdaus2832]

Thanks its clear step and helpful to solve my issue

[@Bobapartea]

This was soooo helpful! Thank you so much!

Hi Susan. I've got this working as you told connecting via console in my cloud. I put my public key in there but only my pc has access to that vm. How can I have this working for any other computers from my office?

[@codewithsusan]

For each computer you want to connect from, you want to generate a key pair and install the public key from that pair on the server. Here's my video on setting up keys: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWi0XoScnrSDgs0

@@codewithsusan Thank you!

[@sandeepupadhayay7145]

Thanks for the solution

[@LumenVigil]

Great Video thanks Susan

[@CaseyMcKean]

My ssh folder on my vm doesn't contain "authorized_keys" file but a "known_hosts" file, do these represent the same use?

[@codewithsusan]

Hi Casey - If you don't see an authorized_keys file there you can create it. The known_hosts file is different - that keeps track of what external hosts that system has connected to so that when you go to connect to those hosts again, it won't prompt you to approve the connection.

[@CaseyMcKean]

@@codewithsusan Thanks so much, this worked!

[@ricocollina3549]

I did follow almost everything but stuck with the step of having authorized_keys. This file is not on my server. So I tried creating one and adding the public key to it but to no avail.

[@codewithsusan]

If you email me the output of the command "ssh -v your-username@your-ip-address" I can take a look and help you debug. [e-mail].

[@marwaka]

This is helped me a lot

[@delesoft]

Thank you, great content.

[@mbodeomo]

what if after checking the config file and the IdentityFile is pointing to the right key, but after running verbose you see that it is the default id_rsa key that is being picked up?

[@codewithsusan]

You can attempt the SSH connection by explicitly specifying which key to use. This will confirm/deny the key you are trying to use is functioning. The command to do that is: ssh -i ~/.ssh/your-key your-username@your-server-ip If that succeeds you know the key is not the problem, but there is some problem with your SSH config or how the key was added to the config. If it fails, you know it's a problem with the key. Feel free to follow-up with what you find and I can continue to help you troubleshoot.

[@Spumilupi]

Not sure if this is still being followed or not but here it goes…. Would this problem be the same if I am getting a message that says “permission denied (publickey,password)”? I am only getting the message after trying a password three times (but it’s the password I’ve used for the past four months). It just seems to have stop being recognized.

[@codewithsusan]

If you're using passwords to log in, the SSH keys should be irrelevant. Odd that it had been previously working and just stopped. Do you have some alternative way to log into your server to troubleshoot (E.g. another member on your team that has access or via a dashboard from your server provider) ?

[@WoLFyy2009]

thanks susan that was helpful

[@cassius.giorgio]

Awesome and very clear, thanks for sharing your acknowledgement

[@2u841r]

very well explained. thank you so much

[@lajeferrario]

Great video! Thanks

[@mariasolgonzalez4786]

Thank u so much!!! It was very helpful ;)

[@Eggsec]

question, I was giving the RSA private key to login from work, could I ask you how to go abouts to connect? i've been googling this all day. Do i need to override my private key to the key i was giving? thank you.

[@codewithsusan]

In your case, you're not generating the keys on your computer, you're working with an existing key. To set this up, place the key they gave you in your computer's ~/.ssh directory. You can name this file whatever you want, but let's say for example you call it "my-work-key" (because it's a private key, we won't use an extension). Then, edit your SSH config file (~/.ssh/config) like I showed in the video adding the line referencing this key (IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my-work-key). Now when you attempt to SSH into your work server, it should attempt to authenticate with that key. If that doesn't work, let me know and I can help debug further.

[@SCSUSEGroupPizzaProject]

Perfect, great video!

[@acoustic7skate]

this was what I needed. thank you!

[@stefwill]

Interesting authorisation method for notes access :)

[@codewithsusan]

Seems like a fair exchange for free content, no? : )

[@bilalabbaszaidi]

Very well explained. Thank you

[@am7-p]

Thank you for the step by step guide

[@ChastainSanchez]

when checking the connection with ssh -v it shows that it is not using the correct key file. How do i fix. In terraform the path to key file is correct but it is still trying to find the pair in the wrong key file

[@codewithsusan]

Hi Chastain - If you want to share the output of `ssh -v` with me via email ([e-mail]) I can help you troubleshoot further.

[@greymatters2965]

Glad I found this

[@ElsiervoDePeFKNerre]

Y que pasa cuando la clave pública si está en el archivo y aún sigue dando el mismo error de denied permission (pubkey)?

[@ElsiervoDePeFKNerre]

Y buen video,me encantó lo fácil que fue entenderlo saludos desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 aquí un nuevo sub

[@codewithsusan]

In addition to checking that the public key is on the server in the correct location, were you able to confirm the other steps as well? This includes: 1. That the private and public key are a match 2. If the private key has a custom name that your SSH config is set to attempt to use that key If you've checked all of those things and it's still not working, run "ssh -v username@ip-address" and study the output for clues. If you want, you can email me the output ([e-mail]) and I can help look it over for you.

[@codewithsusan]

Gracias lo aprecio :)

[@ElsiervoDePeFKNerre]

Muchas gracias por su amable respuesta y ofrecer de su tiempo para ayudarme, y pues le voy a contactar para darle los detalles de el comando -v. Otra ves me encantó el video y la forma sencilla y detallada que lo explicas que para alguien como yo que estoy dando pasos de baby en esto lo comprendí todo.

[@SamanyuKaushik]

amazing video and notes

[@TheNerdEngineer1]

Best! save my day. Thanks.

[@VolodymyrHorobets-h1u]

Thank you! you saved my time !!!

[@uxnitro]

Thanks for the great tutorial. Please make a tutorial on ssh and ftp root and sudo proper usage. All newbies struggle with file permissions. Thanks

[@codewithsusan]

Good suggestion. I have a video I want to make on increasing server security and this would be a good tie-in.

[@gilbertintabo160]

this was a great explanation

[@codewithsusan]

Thanks!

[@datboyblu3]

Easy explanation, thank you!

[@upworkprofilevideonoorulam440]

nice explanation. Thanks

[@nicolascuestaquintero9708]

Outstanding video

[@codewithsusan]

Appreciate it!

[@mohamedsuliman1305]

What if I get this error and I don't see any files for the public key or the private key?

[@codewithsusan]

If you don't see a public or private key, you'll need to generate them. Instructions here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWi0XoScnrSDgs0

[@mohamedsuliman1305]

@@codewithsusan Thanks Susan!

[@ikhwanulabiyu6325]

nice explanation!

[@sajadzirak43]

that was really really really helpful

[@kidfame5149]

Only God can bless you me😭I was half fustrated😭❤