[SOLVED] Azure Cloud Shell : Permission denied (publickey)

Issue

I am trying to access a VM created with the ssh file and when i tried to execute the command , i am getting the following error,

ssh azureuser@publicIpAddress

I get this error

Permission denied (publickey)

and i am not able to connect to VM. any idea where is the problem?

Solution

I had the same issue in the past, Please try with the below command which explicitly specifies which key to use.

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa azureuser@yourpublicip

where .ssh/id is the key that you generated

Answered By - Sajeetharan

Answer Checked By - Terry (WPSolving Volunteer)