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Discussion on: DigitalOcean Permission denied (publickey)

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shin • • Edited

Thanks for sharing this.
I usually change this:

PermitRootLogin no
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I needed one more step.
Once you ssh to your server as a root, I need to copy my root ssh to /home/your-username/.ssh:
Run the following:

rsync --archive --chown=your-username:your-username ~/.ssh /home/your-username
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Now you can ssh using your name.

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Sharadhi N •

amazing! after sifting through 100s of pages talking about either solutions I already know or irrelevant ones, THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT WORKED FOR ME.
DigitalOcean should include this in their docs. Thanks mate!