Can connect to Droplet only using root user

Romek

4/18/24, 4:49 PM

I'm trying to set up a Digital Ocean Droplet, and i have created a new user to follow best practices and also so that i can run the code command, because it isn't allowed as the root user. I can login using ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@droplet_ip but running ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa my_user@droplet_ip returns my_user@droplet_ip: Permission denied (publickey).
Why is this issue occuring? I also have managed to change the user after logging in as root using sudo su my_user, but when I try to run code it says
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘’: No such file or directory which is very odd.
Any help will be greatly appreciated :)

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llesh

4/18/24, 5:05 PM

have you copied your public key to the droplet? `ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remoteDroplet`

Romek

4/19/24, 4:36 PM

This is what i get after running this command: ```/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: Source of key(s) to be installed: "/home/wsl_user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you are prompted now it is to install the new keys user@remoteDroplet: Permission denied (publickey).``` and if i do it as root@remoteDroplet i get ```/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: WARNING: All keys were skipped because they already exist on the remote system.```

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