CentOS - May 2016 - google cloud compute with PEM file

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

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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!

On Tue, 17 May 2016 13:59:18 -0600
Dustin Kempter wrote:
>  Is there something  I missed?
ssh -v serveryouwanttoconnectto

That will tell you what the problem is.

If you don't understand the output, post it here.

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