Yrurtj

I am having a hard time understanding the output from the command below. I am trying to connect to a godaddy server and have been unsuccessful. I enabled SSH access on godaddy's cpanel, created a public/private key, downloaded the private key, moved it into ~/.ssh and added the key to the keychain using ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/mykey. I am unable to connect. I know there is another question on this site but I am providing actual output and want to know the reason it's failing.

I am not sure why it's not looking for SSH key called key4govi (that's what my private key is called. It seems to be looking at they key id_rsa(assuming from the output).

Here are my folder contents for the .ssh folder on my local machine:

github_rsa              

github_rsa.pub      

id_rsa

id_rsa.pub

key4govi

key4govi.pub

known_hosts

Here's my command:
~ => ssh callydai@callydai.com -vv

Here's the output:

OpenSSH_6.9p1, LibreSSL 2.1.8

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config

debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *

debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 53: Applying options for *

debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0

debug1: Connecting to callydai.com [107.180.55.15] port 22.

debug1: Connection established.

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_rsa type 1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_dsa type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /Users/raigovind93/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1

debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0

debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.9

ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

You need to add your client's public key in the server's authorized keys. So you append the contents of client:~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub into server:~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

points out to different error. It means that you were able to connect to ssh server but the connection was closed immediately without getting correct "hello" message. Is the server running there? Isn't there some kind of policy where from you can connect? Do you have correct reverse DNS record?

Your key is correctly in keychain and once you would be able to connect to the correct key will be offered. The other keys touched are default paths and ssh will try to open them always.

Maybe you can try this command

ssh-copy-id -i identity-file(ex.id_rsa.pub) user@server

You will be asked to enter the password for the account, that means, PasswordAuthentication yes must be set.

The command creates the needed entry in .ssh/authorized_keys.
So after that you should be able to connect to the server via ssh -i identity-file user@server