I've got a digital ocean VPS which I'd like to connect to with Cloud 9's code editor. They have a simple form, which I filled out with the fill out with the required information:
hostname: xxx.xxx.xx.xx
username: stephen
nodejs binary path: /usr/bin/nodejs
Your SSH key: mYpUbLicKey...uploaded through cloud 9's interface
initial path: (optional--I've left blank)
port: (optional--I've left blank)
I get the following error:
Cloud9 couldn't connect to SSH server stephen@xxx.xxx.xx.xx
It's on the default port and allows access to the stephen user (although I tried the above with "root" user and still no dice). Is there something I'm missing here? I tried the exact same commands on the Secure Shell chrome app and I'm able to access the server just fine.
Also I was able to get this to work doing, I believe the exact same thing, but then I realized that I should probably not be doing everything using the root user (I'm a little new at this) so I created the stephen user and changed the information in order to use that user instead. That's when it stopped working. Is it possible that I've given inadvertedly denied access to cloud9 by adding this additional user.
I should also add that I've followed the instructions in cloud9's documentation edited the authorized keys on the server to include the public key that's stored on cloud9.
Any ideas? I know it might be difficult to know what the problem is here, but if someone had an idea at least about where to look, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
Could it be that you didn't add the ssh key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the homedir of the stephen user?