GCE: cannot login, The VM guest environment is outdated and only supports the deprecated 'sshKeys' metadata item

Question

I cannot ssh into my Google Compute Engine (GCE) Wordpress instance anymore. It was working one month ago when I tried last. I use the Google built-in SSH client in a Chrome bro

Answer 1

recent days, I meet similar problem, later I find the permission rights of my home directory fools me, as a lazy-bone, I chmod 777 ~ After did that, I cannot ssh via my terminal, even cannot ssh via browser, only get 'The VM guest environment is outdated and only supports the deprecated 'sshKeys' metadata item, Plese follow the steps here to update'. Sounds like you must set 755 to your home dir, not just care your 700 .ssh or 600 authorized_keys.