Using the https://help.turingpi.com/hc/en-us/articles/8942913487901-OS-setup guide on flashing the CM4 with dietpi for kubernetes, I cant login via SSH at the end. Using

ssh 192.168.178.81 -v

which I configures and is also showing up in the network (host name is not showing correctly in frizbox) and I only getting

Permission denied (publickey,password)

I also tried to use the ssh keys and configured those in the pi imager but with no luck, they are there in the

user_data

file but login is not possible. Any ideas or suggestions?

Dumb question but don’t you need to do

ssh dietpi@192.168.178.81

, since your local user likely isn’t called

dietpi

? 🤔

found the issue, I for some reason needed to run ssh with

sudo

never had to do that before

Well that would… probably try to log you in as

root

on the DietPi, so that also works but only makes me think that my version would also work

oh yeah I know... I was desperately dailing down on my security mesures to get that thing finally running at all 😄

Ah sorry, I think I’m not explaining properly… On DietPi, two* users exist by default,

dietpi

and `root`; by doing

sudo ssh …

, you’re changing your local user to

root

, thus attempting to log in as

root

, which will work If you do just

ssh <ip-address>

, it will try to log in as the same username that you use on your local machine – a username that in all likelihood, doesn’t exist on your DietPi installation. To override the user, you need to call

ssh <username>@<ip-address>

, in your case

ssh dietpi@192.168.178.81

*simplification, shush 🤭

thats what I did a 1000 times and it did not work