Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)

Question

After creating the instance, I can login using gcutil or ssh. I tried copy/paste from the ssh link listed at the bottom of the instance and get the same error message.

Answer 1

I just experienced a similar message [ mine was "Permission denied (publickey)"] after connecting to a compute engine VM which I just created. After reading this post, I decided to try it again.

That time it worked. So i see 3 possible reasons for it working the second time,

• connecting the second time resolves the problem (after the ssh key was created the first time), or
• perhaps trying to connect to a compute engine immediately after it was created could also cause a problem which resolves itself after a while, or
• merely reading this post resolves the problem

I suspect the last is unlikely :)