# cannot login with public key

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/cannot-login-with-public-key/5559>\
**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/cannot-login-with-public-key/5559 "2017-04-19T12:06:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/cannot-login-with-public-key/5559/7 "2017-04-21T08:45:44Z")

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oh, sorry, please use private key for connecting id\_rsa (not id\_rsa.pub)

```auto
ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa admin&#64;192.168.178.59

```

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