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   Allen Stenhaus (allenstenhaus@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 14:02:01 JST Allen Stenhaus

   Is something corrupting my public key? Why won't it connect me? I can't even attempt a password, as I disabled that per recommendations of the install guide.

   I understand why I want to use keys instead of passwords, but I'm wondering if perhaps something is going wrong there, I'm not aware of it, and it's only burning me later when I have to log out then back in and find out I no longer have access.

   Could I do the entire instance setup, verify everything is working, then upload my public key?

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     Allen Stenhaus (allenstenhaus@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 14:06:06 JST Allen Stenhaus

     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard Manually adding it to the accepted keys file per the instructions in the knowledge base.

     You may be right. It's possible a step is blocking root login. That would certainly explain a great deal. I think with this next install I'll set up a user with sudo privileges that I'll use for logging in and not touch the root user if I don't have to. It's worth a shot.