SSH login via Keys

TheGlenn88

• November 09, 2013 06:38

Hi, I have been trialling cPanel so far with success, one thing that i cannot for the life of me do is login to SSH using keys. Not only in cPanel i have never been able to do it via VPN in my router configuration. I have spent alot of time trying to do it but with no success. I am using the latest cPanel 11.40.0 b19 (on a cloudlinux VM locally) and i am running os x 10.9 mavericks and using the terminal ssh client. Root user login is disabled, password auth is disabled, created a new user and included in wheel group. I have tried: Generating the key from WHM and importing it into my ~/.ssh folder and creating a config file inside with the host and username. and Generating the key from osx and importing the public key into WHM and authorising. either way i just get the error "Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)." I have tried using ssh @host ssh -i ~./ssh/id_rsa @host ssh -i ~./ssh/id_rsa host ssh -i ~./ssh/private.key @host (when imported from WHM) ssh -i ~./ssh/private.key host (when imported from WHM) Any help will be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards Mike

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  TheGlenn88

  • November 11, 2013 00:58

  I managed to get this problem resolved. Where i was going wrong was that i had created a new user and added it to wheel because root login is disabled. I was logged in to WHM as root and generating/importing the keys using the panel. which was creating keys for the user root instead of my newly created user... so i logged in via ssh using password created the keys using "ssh-keygen -t dsa" then imported to my laptop.

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  cPanelMichael

  • November 11, 2013 18:41

  Hello :) I am happy to hear you were able to resolve the issue. Thank you for sharing the solution with us.

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