Permission denied (publickey) during SSH using Git Bash on a Windows Machine

Question

When I try to execute the command ssh -vvv user@ip_address, the last few lines of the outcome looks as below:

debug3: send packet: type 50

debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply

debug3: receive packet: type 51

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey

debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method

debug1: No more authentication methods to try.

user@ip_address: Permission denied (publickey).

I have tried using Putty as well and verified the public key under /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys. How can I resolve this?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 13 '19 at 20:26

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Finally, got it resolved. Tried the following steps:

Copied the folders under /root/.ssh to /home/username/.ssh .
Changed the permission of .ssh to 700 and the files under it to 644.
In the local machine, i did "conversions-->export openssh key" from putty gen in the screen displaying my public key, which was generated from putty gen earlier.
Copied the openssh key to ~/.ssh/ and then copied the file content to id_rsa under the same path,i.e. .ssh

Created a config file under .ssh , which looks like below :

#!/bin/sh
Hostname ip_address of remote server
User username
PubKeyAuthentication yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

And finally tried to connect using the command
```
ssh -vvv username@remoteserver_ip_address
```

edited Jun 13 '19 at 20:26

Kenster

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answered Jun 13 '19 at 20:08

ramiya dash

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point 5. What did u call the config file? – Per G Aug 05 '19 at 14:13
Hi @PerG , Windows should already have a file called config, it was under my username path such as : /c/Users/username/.ssh/config – ramiya dash Aug 06 '19 at 14:34

Permission denied (publickey) during SSH using Git Bash on a Windows Machine

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