Cannot ssh into instance using gcloud

Question

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?

Answer 1

Solved it ! :)

on my local machine, used

ssh-add ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine

and then tried the command. Worked like a charm!