ssh id_rsa.pub not accessible
By John Parsons •
I have a problem when i try to use a key with ssh:
ssh -i /ssh/id_rsa.pub
Warning: Identity file /ssh/id_rsa.pub not accessible: No such file or directory.2 Answers
/ssh is not a valid file path, and if it is you don't have access to view it.
SSH Keys are usually generated and placed into $HOME/.ssh/. I think you meant to run this:
ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa root@x.x.x.xDoes root on the remote machine have a password? That is, did you sudo passwd root to give root a password on the remote machine? If you didn't do that, you can not log in as root directly.
For an Ubuntu install, root's home is /root.
You should not need the -i flag unless you have multiple ssh identities in /root/.ssh.
