.ssh for keys ubuntu

Asked Mar 15 '19 at 00:47

Active Mar 15 '19 at 00:54

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I am setting up a new working station, where I want to be able to access my digitalOcean droplet with it. However, after copying the public key id_rs_pub, the private key id_rsa and known_hosts to my new working stations /home/user/.ssh. I get the following error:

sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).

when trying to connect with ssh [email protected]

it turns out, when I delete the /home/user/.ssh folder completely from my main working station. I can still access the droplet with ssh [email protected]. This leads me to believe the private and public key are stored in a different location. Is this possible? If so, where?

edited Mar 15 '19 at 00:54

asked Mar 15 '19 at 00:47

Jonas Grønbek

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Possibly related: Ubuntu 16.04 ssh: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation – steeldriver Mar 15 '19 at 01:04
I don't think you should put the public IP here, better to mention as x.x.x.x . And protect your droplet right away, firewall it. Regarding the keys the default is ~/.ssh/ unless its changed in the ssh config file: /etc/ssh/ssh_config – beginer Mar 15 '19 at 01:05
@beginer I typed in a random one, this one is not correct :) – Jonas Grønbek Mar 15 '19 at 01:08
@JonasGrønbek lol you're putting someone else at risk. Let me verify its not one of mine :-p – beginer Mar 15 '19 at 01:18

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