Permission denied when trying to ssh into AWS instances

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Hi, I’m having troubles to reach the linux salve machines on a spotfleet. We are running putty in windows, all the auth settings are there (DashKey/agent forwarding turned on/etc). I can connect to the gateway just fine, but from there when I try to ssh to one of the slaves I get:

Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).

Any suggestions on how to avoid this error ?

thank you.

[Justin_B]

Could be that you’ve forgotten to tick a box somewhere, you can double check if you’re set up right here in our docs.

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Thanks Justin, the problem was really simple and not AWS related. I forgot to run Pageant with the dashKey loaded, so putty was not able to forward the ssh agent to the instances.

[Justin_B]

The number of times I’ve done the same thing! Glad it’s working.