On 5/17/16 10:47 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <573B48C8.1070000 at consistentstate.com>, > Dustin Kempter <dustink at consistentstate.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am using the google cloud compute engine and we have a client >> that does not want to share their ssh keys. So I have been attempting to >> set up a PEM file for ssh access. Both the local server I used for >> testing and the cloud vm are centos 6. >> >> I created a user on the cloud box, ran "ssh-keygen -t rsa" and took the >> defaults. I then copied the id_rsa.pub file to the local centos box, >> renamed it then made my test user the owner of the file. I then >> attempted to connect to the user I created on the google cloud box with >> the PEM file as shown below, but got the following error. >> >> [test1 at pgpool1 ~]$ ssh -i /home/test1/my-key.txt upload at 815.677.151.45 >> Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic). >> >> Have any of you done this successfully before? Or know what the issue >> may be? > Try adding -v to the ssh command, to get more information. > > But also, on the server you are trying to log in to, the public key > needs to be copied into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys - not left in its own file. > > Also make sure that the ~/.ssh/directory is owned by the user and has > permissions of 700. > > Cheers > Tony > Thank you! I added the authorized keys on the server I am trying to connect to and now when I run the same command on the test server it is asking me for the passphrase, as I did not set one I just hit enter and then get the same permission denied error as before. Is there something I missed? permissions are correct for sure on the google cloud server that im trying to connect to. The key file on the test server is set to 0600 Thanks in advance!