# Regarding Publickey password permission denied

**URL:** https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/regarding-publickey-password-permission-denied/4792
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 11, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/regarding-publickey-password-permission-denied/4792 "2026-03-11T12:53:37Z")
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### Author: ![harjad84](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/harjad84/32/3273_2.png) [@harjad84](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/harjad84)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/regarding-publickey-password-permission-denied/4792/1 "2026-03-11T12:53:38Z")

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Hello,

When I try to submit a job, I experience a following error:  
[jsethuraman@slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de](mailto:jsethuraman@slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de): Permission denied (publickey,password).

Though I have shared the public key in [slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de](http://slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de) server but still it causing a problem when I try to submit a job. But I when i try to access the server target server from OOD server, it works pretty weel. But when I try to submit a form then it causes this problem. I tried my best to resolve the issue but nothing works.

Here’s is my cluste yml file:

* * *

v2:  
metadata:  
title: “g\_acct\_hlr cluster”  
login:  
host: “[slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de](http://slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de)”  
password: true  
ssh:  
user: “%{User}”  
port: 22  
options:  
BatchMode: “yes”  
#PasswordAuthentication: “no”  
#PreferredAuthentications: “publickey”  
#IdentityFile: “/home/%{User}/.ssh/id\_ed25519”  
StrictHostKeyChecking: “no”  
UserKnownHostsFile: “/dev/null”  
job:  
adapter: “slurm”  
cluster: “g\_acct\_hlr”  
submit\_host: “[slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de](http://slurmctl.lan.csc.uni-frankfurt.de)” # or your cluster login node  
password: true  
ssh:  
user: “%{User}”  
port: 22  
options:  
BatchMode: “yes”  
#PasswordAuthentication: “no”  
#PreferredAuthentications: “publickey”  
#IdentityFile: “/home/%{User}/.ssh/id\_ed25519”  
StrictHostKeyChecking: “no”  
UserKnownHostsFile: “/dev/null”  
sbatch: “/usr/bin/sbatch”  
squeue: “/usr/bin/squeue”  
scancel: “/usr/bin/scancel”  
sinfo: “/usr/bin/sinfo”  
bin: “/usr/bin”  
conf: “/etc/slurm/slurm.conf”  
bin\_overrides:

```auto
   # sbatch: "/usr/local/bin/sbatch"
   # squeue: ""
   # scontrol: ""
   # scancel: ""
 copy_environment: false

```

batch\_connect:  
basic:  
script\_wrapper: |  
module purge  
%s  
set\_host: “host=$(hostname -A | awk ‘{print $1}’)”  
vnc:  
script\_wrapper: |  
module purge  
#Add the TurboVNC installation directory to the PATH (note: this may be different on your system)  
export PATH=“/opt/TurboVNC/bin:$PATH”  
export WEBSOCKIFY\_CMD=“/usr/bin/websockify”  
%s  
set\_host: “host=$(hostname -A | awk ‘{print $1}’)”

Could you please help me with this?

Thanks in advance!

Best Regards,  
Hariharan

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### Author: ![harjad84](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/harjad84/32/3273_2.png) [@harjad84](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/harjad84)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/regarding-publickey-password-permission-denied/4792/2 "2026-03-17T16:47:15Z")

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Hello,

This isssue got resolved.  
Many thnaks for your kind attention!

Best Regards,  
Hariharan