ssh connection Permission denied (publickey) on Debian only

Molnar, Miroslav 1

I'm getting the famous Permission denied (publickey) error trying to connect to a fresh Debian 11 VM instance. The connection is initiated immediately after the VM instance is deployed (the private key stored during the deployment process).

I'm not experiencing this on a fresh Ubuntu VM instance, this works immediately after I create a new Ubuntu VM.

For both connections I'm issuing the same command, i.e. ssh -i <private key path> azureuser@xxxxxxxxx

Thx,

Miro.

suvasara-MSFT 10,056 Reputation points

2022-03-10T13:00:15.483+00:00
@Molnar, Miroslav , Try Setting the Right File Permissions for Local Public and Private SSH Key
The public and private files are stored under the user's home directory .ssh folder. The public and private key folder need to have the right file permission to be readable by the current user. Set this directory file permissions with the following chmod command.

chmod -R 740 ~/.ssh/
Zhijie Yang 56 Reputation points

2022-12-04T20:45:55.817+00:00

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Fabricio Lucas Espinoza 0 Reputation points

2023-01-12T20:38:03.3066667+00:00

Hello,

I have the same issue. Also, I ran the chmod -R 740 ~/.ssh/, but I am still having the Permission denied (publickey)
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