Cannot ssh into instance using gcloud

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I have set up a new instance in gcloud..yet am unable to use the gcloud compute ssh instance-name command. A verbose console output is:

debug2: bits set: 511/1024
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug2: kex_derive_keys
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug2: key: .....@..... (0x7fb5c12289f0)
debug2: key: ...../.ssh/id_rsa ((nil))
debug2: key: ...../.ssh/id_dsa ((nil))
debug2: key: ...../.ssh/id_ecdsa ((nil))
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-keyex
debug1: No valid Key exchange context
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_1000' not found

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_1000' not found

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information


debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_1000' not found

debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: ....@....
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Trying private key: ....../.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: ....../.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: ....../.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).

I tried many things, one of the ways i found was to add my keys into the project's metadata..but isn't Google supposed to do that for you? It anyway did not work for me, and I tried creating a new google_cloud_compute.pub in ~/.ssh..still nothing. Any suggestions?

Have you tried ssh through the browser from your developer console ? — Faizan
– Faizan, Commented Jan 28, 2015 at 20:12
yes that works just fine..however i need to move large files onto the VM. — previouslyactualname
– previouslyactualname, Commented Jan 28, 2015 at 20:14
You have a typo: your command above is gcloud config ssh but what you want is gcloud compute ssh. — Misha Brukman
– Misha Brukman, Commented Jan 28, 2015 at 21:13

previouslyactualname · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-28 20:52:27Z

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Solved it ! :)

on my local machine, used

ssh-add ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine

and then tried the command. Worked like a charm!

answered Jan 28, 2015 at 20:52

previouslyactualname

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Misha Brukman Over a year ago

You don't need to add the key to the SSH agent; gcloud picks up the key automatically from the path ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine so this shouldn't be necessary... That said, glad to hear that it's working for you!

previouslyactualname Over a year ago

even i thought so..maybe it was a permissions issue. Glad it works now too!

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