Can't log in with ssh keys

kers7754

• July 22, 2014 14:32

I followed this tutorial and did this many times: [url=http://blog.servint.net/2012/05/11/the-tech-bench-ssl-key-authentication/]Server Security and SSH Key Authentication The public key correct imports into WHM root key and Manage Authorization is set to authorized. But when I ssh -p {customport} user@mydomain.com I always get this error: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic) As soon as I allow password authentication, the SSH works but asks me for my password and doesn't use the key. Any ideas?

• 

  quizknows

  • July 22, 2014 19:43

  try using the -i flag (identity) when you log in, ie: ssh -i your_private.key -p {customport} user@mydomain.com

  0
• 

  kers7754

  • July 22, 2014 20:09

  [quote="quizknows, post: 1692782">try using the -i flag (identity) when you log in, ie: ssh -i your_private.key -p {customport} user@mydomain.com
  That didn't seem to work either. :( At one point I disabled root ssh access and forced users to ssh as a different user then su - to get root access. But checking the sshd_config, I see that PermitRootLogin yes. Any other suggestions? [COLOR="silver">- - - Updated - - - Ah.. so it look like when I ssh with root@hostname.com, I get an access denied. So apparently I am not able to ssh as root. I would imaging that might be my problem as to why I can't ssh with a keypair.

  0
• 

  kers7754

  • July 22, 2014 20:21

  Alright.. it turns out that in my sshd_config file, I had the following: AllowUsers kershnerd,root Removing that line and forcing password authentication to off now works! Thanks for looking into this!

  0
• 

  cPanelMichael

  • July 23, 2014 13:36

  Hello :) I am happy to see you were able to resolve the issue. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

  0

Please sign in to leave a comment.