Are there any reasons to get a pubkey denied after you run ssh-copy-id onto your server? I’ve already restarted the sshd service but I still get pubkey denied after I copied my ssh I.D. to my server. I am thinking about just removing all the keys I have on the server and re-adding them but I was hoping someone else may have an idea before I do that. Thanks!
EDIT: OKAY. I fixed it. I appreciate all the help I received. I still really could not figure out what the actual issue is. But I did have some extra ssh keys that I wasn’t using from old machines and after I deleted those and readded my key everything seems to work
Check perms on the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server side (should be 0600) and the ~/.ssh dir itself?
Have you confirmed that the public keys exist on the remote server in your .ssh directory? Are the permissions correct?
I’ll have to check when I get off work. I never have any errors when copying my id so I am not sure why they wouldn’t be there but I will check
Same. I’ve never had it screw up before, but the only thing I can imagine is that something’s not right with the keys.
As an aside, I did recently create a new server, and somehow managed to completely ignore the errors in ssh-copy-id. Turns out I forgot to use -m (to create my home directory) in useradd when I went to create my personal account. Oops!
Also: Make sure that the user you ran “ssh-copy-id” against on the remote machine is also the user you’re trying to log in with.
Try running this command on your target system:
cat $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
Does the private key part of your key pair show up in the list?
did you verify to use the correct corresponding private key?
You can specify the keyfile with the -i option if i remember correctly
