I have created VM with authentication set to SSH public key. I set up ssh public key while creating process. There was a form input for the key. VM has been successfully created. But as I tried to connect via MoboXTerm to VM I get an error: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey) What it means not supported method? Now I am not able to connect to VM and I dont see any option to do it in Azure administration. What can I do or what am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

Hello @Vladimír Čamaj , Best approach is to have the Keys Ready (Private and Public). Use PuttyGen ( https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html ) to create a key pair. Public Key can be used while creating the VM and Private key to be loaded in MoboXTerm. Please mark as "Accept the answer" if the above steps helps you. Others with similar issues can also follow the solution as per your suggestion Regards, Manu

Virtual Machine SSH public key connection

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Manu Philip 19,271 Reputation points MVP

2020-05-29T20:45:14.283+00:00

Hello @Vladimír Čamaj ,

Best approach is to have the Keys Ready (Private and Public).
Use PuttyGen (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html) to create a key pair.

Public Key can be used while creating the VM and Private key to be loaded in MoboXTerm.

Please mark as "Accept the answer" if the above steps helps you. Others with similar issues can also follow the solution as per your suggestion

Regards,

Manu
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Vladimír Čamaj 21 Reputation points

2020-05-29T21:14:25.07+00:00

I dont understand. I have private and public key. I dont need Putty to generate them. Also the problem is I am not able to connect the server by another way. There was two alternatives. Password and SSH key. I have chose SSH key. Now I am not able to connect to server via MobaXterm.

Manu Philip 19,271 Reputation points MVP

2020-05-29T21:31:22.75+00:00

Hi,

Have you loaded the Private Key correctly, while connecting through SSH something like below:

Vladimír Čamaj 21 Reputation points

2020-05-30T11:36:11.813+00:00

Yes it works. Thnaks a lot. But I am little confused. I though it has to be a public key which is stored on server in authorized_keys to connect from MobaXterm. I dont understand that logic with private key. Private should be stored on my local machine. Can you give me some explanation of this process please? It drives me crazy. I heve installed some servers but I always send ssh-copy-id to server to anable connection. What is this?

Manu Philip 19,271 Reputation points MVP

2020-05-30T16:14:00.46+00:00

Hi,
Glad to hear that the issue is resolved. You may go through Microsoft documentation to understand this better

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed

Regards,
Manu
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