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hi,
Yesterday ive fired up a new aws server in forge, I have used the forge deploy tool to pull the site from git, no problem, site is up.
But I can not ssh into it.
Im using login : forge
I have added the public key, and Ive tried adding the key 3 different ways in forge ssh keys section
1: completely as it looks.
2: I have tied adding only the characters without these lines
---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
(coment: "rsa-key....)
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
3: and lastly Ive tried adding without the above comments and just the characters whilst removing the new lines, so adding as 1 long string.
But I always get from putty
Server refused our key.
and then a popup
Disconnected no supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)
So what have I forgotten to do?.
I can putty into my other forge vultr server no problem.
Ive just fired up another server on forge at vultr,
Ive made a new key pair
ive added the public key to the ssh section and forge
Ive tried using putty to log in using the private key and usersname 'forge'
And I get key refused.
Im obviously forgeting some cruicial step here.
any ideas anyone please.
Found solution here https://serverfault.com/questions/599909/laravel-forge-ssh-on-windows-not-recognized
only took another 3 hours of my life of more unpaid labour
at this rate when I hit retirement age I should hopefully be ready for a junior role
You and I will be able to retire in a really spacious cardboard box. I'll even invite you over for a beer.
Hello I have the same issue, the ssh keys are good. Aws got disconnected from forge and not able to reconnect again. This is my 10th attempt, I am not sure what went wrong. The log here
Nov 4 00:53:03 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78247]: Received disconnect from 74.122.209.251 port 46916:11: Bye Bye [preauth] Nov 4 00:53:03 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78247]: Disconnected from invalid user admin 74.122.209.251 port 46916 [preauth] Nov 4 00:53:04 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78249]: Invalid user admin from 74.122.209.251 port 46938 Nov 4 00:53:04 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78249]: Received disconnect from 74.122.209.251 port 46938:11: Bye Bye [preauth] Nov 4 00:53:04 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78249]: Disconnected from invalid user admin 74.122.209.251 port 46938 [preauth] Nov 4 00:55:27 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78265]: Invalid user from 65.49.20.69 port 52172 Nov 4 00:55:31 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78265]: Connection closed by invalid user 65.49.20.69 port 52172 [preauth] Nov 4 00:57:06 ip-10-0-1-156 sshd[78268]: error: kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
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