Register a manual cloud on second client machine

juju
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I seem to have got stuck when trying to access a manual cloud (on Linode) from a machine other than where I used Juju to create it.

On the 1st machine I used Juju 2.8.8 to add-cloud, bootstrap, add-machine and finally deploy a charm with no issues, just following the doc.

However, I can’t find a way to use the exact same version of Juju from my second machine using the same versions of everything (elementary OS 5.1.7).

So far I’ve re-done the add-cloud, but using add-credential says I don’t need to, and when I use register it asks for the controller name, then just sits doing nothing forever (I gave up after 30ish minutes).

Both Linodes are running Ubuntu 20.04.
Used “root@juju.mysupersecretdomain.dev” during add-cloud (both times).
SSH authentication is via public key, exact same key on both machines.
All working well from 1st machine, can even juju ssh 0 to end up as ubuntu user on machine.

What did I do wrong?

Do I really need to add a user to the controller etc?

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Creating a user is the recommended way.

What are you using as the argument to juju register?

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Tried many things, but what I expected to work were simply …

juju register juju.mysupersecretdomain.dev

or

juju register -B juju.mysupersecretdomain.dev

… where “juju.mysupersecretdomain.dev” is the domain name for the controller’s machine, and used with “root@juju.mysupersecretdomain.dev” during bootstrap.

I have gone ahead and created a user and registered via that since then, but it’s a shame I couldn’t just use the admin account and my ssh key for quick and easy usage without a password.