ssh to my compute engine machine

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Two days ago I've created a compute engine instance and connected to it with ssh, everything was fine, after testing different things i've deleted the machine and disk. Today I've created a new instance in compute engine, getinstance as well as the console show the instance running.

But when trying to connect to the instance I'm getting a messegebox asking for: enter your password for the ssh key "google compute engine"

the password i'm entering is getting denied

how can I change the password for this project? this user?

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sshgoogle-compute-engine

1 Answers

15
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This is how I resolved the issue:

  1. turn hidden files on on finder (by running: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE)
  2. going to $HOME/.ssh directory and delete the files google_compute_engine, google_compute_engine.pub
  3. call gcutil ssh again which created new files with new passphrase
  4. when prompted again enter the passphrase and connection established :)