SSH user1@ip_address: Permission denied (publickey)

reno_rita

I am trying to connect to a my SSH server (running on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS) from my local machine (Ubuntu 18.04.03 LTS). I have created a private and public key on my local machine and copied my public key to my SSH server's authorized_keys file. I could log in with ssh root@ip-address and I have access (as root user), but when I tried to log in as another user with command ssh name@ip-address , it generated an error message: name@ip_address:...

Originally asked by Suhadak Akbar on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Open sshd_config file. sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Change the following lines. PermitRootLogin prohibit-password to PermitRootLogin yes PasswordAuthentication no to PasswordAuthentication yes Restart ssh service. sudo service ssh restart

Full answer by Tejas Lotlikar: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1197204 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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