azureuser xxxxxxxx Permission denied publickey gssapi-keyex gssapi-with-mic

Question

Hi Guys,

I have one Virtual Machine in Azure Cloud. I want to connect to the VM from the command line. But it is showing me the below error.

Warning: Permanently added 'xxxxxxxxxxxx' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
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@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
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Permissions for 'NewVM_key.pem' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
Load key "NewVM_key.pem": bad permissions
azureuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

I think there is a permission issue with the key file. Ensure that you have read-only access to the private key. If not, then you can use the below command.

$ chmod 400 <private key file>

Hope it helped!

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