How to use Compute Engine - GCE with putty

putty-gce.md

Pre-requisite: go to http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html download http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe and http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/puttygen.exe

Run puttygen and generate the key

1. Click 'Generate' move the mouse around as instructed and wait

2. enter your desired username

3. enter your password

4. save the private key

5. copy the entire content of the 'Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file' window. Make sure, you copy every single character from the beginning to the very end!

6. go to the cloud console http://cloud.google.com/console select your project and under Compute Engine / VM instances click on 'New instance' click on the advanced options link paste in the contents copied at step 5 into the entry box indicated

7. note the IP address of the instance once it is complete

8. Open putty, from the left hand menu go to Connection / SSH / Auth and define the key file location which was saved at step 4

9. from the left hand menu go to Connection / Data and define the same username as the one at step 2

10. Enter the IP address noted at step 7 11. name the connection below saved Sessions as 'GCE' click on 'Save'

12. double click the 'GCE' entry you just created 13. accept the identy of the host

14. login with the password given at step 3

15. sudo su - and you are all set

OMG, I spent HOURS trying to figure out Google's instructions... I did it in 5 minutes following yours. THANK YOU.

I found this article helpful and wrote Japanese translation for Japanese-speaking readers as fork. Thank you.
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Thank you, it helped. One question. Should I do the same procedures every time I want to use Compute Engine?

Thanks much. it was very useful and I'm able to logon to GCE within few mins, thanks to the detailed procedure.

Thanks feczo for this!
Is there any setting that needs particular attention?
I keep on getting "Network error: Connection timed out" when I try to connect via putty.
Cheers
R

Disconnected: No supported authentification methods available (server sent: public key). And when I logged into VM from Console ssh, strangely, I can not see any folder with name .ssh on machine. I a stuck on it from 1 week, please help

I scratched my head with the howto in Google page, this page is so wonderful.

thank you!

Disconnected: No supported authentification methods available (server sent: public key). And when I logged into VM from Console ssh, strangely, I can not see any folder with name .ssh on machine. I a stuck on it from 1 week, please help

Same issue here!

Thanks a lot. Highly Appreciate it

Thanks a ton for this article. Yes, the Google documentation on this is not as clear and straight forward as your post.

One thing I did different was configuring the SSH Keys at a Project Level (rather than at VM level) in the GCP Console.
There is an option 'Metadata' in the left navigation pane of 'Compute Engine'. I configured the SSH key in the SSH Keys tab.

Thanks again. Cheers

If anyone have trouble with:

Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: public key).

Check if your instance have enable-oslogin set to TRUE. If it is, set it to FALSE then putty should be able to connect using your key.

If anyone have trouble with:

Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: public key).

Check if your instance have enable-oslogin set to TRUE. If it is, set it to FALSE then putty should be able to connect using your key.

Hi dm00z @dm00z

Still having this issue even enable-oslogin set to FALSE

If anyone have trouble with:

    Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: public key).

Check if your instance have enable-oslogin set to TRUE. If it is, set it to FALSE then putty should be able to connect using your key.

Genius! Thanks a lot, I've been trying to configure SSH in Google for a while, was almost giving up.

Followed every bit of your instruction when I double click on GCE it opens the terminal and shows "server refused our key"

Yes me too

If anyone getting "server refused our key" use following solution from arifrohim, It worked for me

https://github.com/arifrohim/rootaccess/blob/master/README.md

Cheers!!

I can not get the option to choose "GCE" under "Saved Sessions" in step 10 and 11. Any help to get that?

@ali-cognitro you save my day brother. Thanks

Followed every bit of your instruction when I double click on GCE it opens the terminal and shows "server refused our key"

This is a great tutorial, but step 5. is incomplete.

You need to paste your public key into your home directory's .ssh/authorized keys folder and then chmod it (log in using the Google console's HTML based SSH client). Follow both answers given in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20249633/how-to-overcome-server-refused-our-key:

1. user1789769's answer of pasting your public key into into .ssh/authorized keys (I had to create this file)
2. m.nguyencntt's answer of chmodding .ssh/authorized keys