shh authentication has failed

[ulilod]

Hello, I have been having problems when I want to start the vm with Google Cloud ssh, previously I wanted to download files from the vm using sftp, I managed to connect it but it did not allow me some files since I did not have permissions, that's when I started looking for a solution through videos and forums and I try with one... after putting the following code sudo chown -R -v ubuntu /home/mtaserver 

and close the vm window it started giving me the following error ssh authentication has failed, I think it is because the code says mtaserver would be my username but I did not put it in, I copied the code as it was, this has a solution or the VM is no longer useful?

 

[DamianS]

Hello @ulilod  ,Welcome on Google Cloud Community.

you could try to enable serial-console feature for this Vm, then log in via serial console by using your local user and perform sudo chown -R -v ubuntu /home/mtaserver but with your desired user. 

Documentation about serial console: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-using-serial-console

Local user: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-using-serial-console#set-up-pa...

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