Hi,
We have an existing droplet and I created/generate a new ssh user. How can I add this to the existing droplet?
Thanks.
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In order to add an SSH key to an existing user, all you need to do is append their public key to the file
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
A quick one liner to do that is:On Ubuntu, you can also use the handy
ssh-import-id
if the user has a public key registered on GitHub or Launchpad. To automatically import the key, you can run:For all the info on how to use SSH keys, check out this article:
In order to add an SSH key to an existing user, all you need to do is append their public key to the file
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
A quick one liner to do that is:On Ubuntu, you can also use the handy
ssh-import-id
if the user has a public key registered on GitHub or Launchpad. To automatically import the key, you can run:For all the info on how to use SSH keys, check out this article:
In order to add an SSH key to an existing user, all you need to do is append their public key to the file
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
A quick one liner to do that is:On Ubuntu, you can also use the handy
ssh-import-id
if the user has a public key registered on GitHub or Launchpad. To automatically import the key, you can run:For all the info on how to use SSH keys, check out this article: