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Adding SSH Keys, I am 100% positive that I used the acceptable assymetric encryprion by the DigitalOcean

Posted on February 5, 2018

When I try to add SSH Public Key of acceptable type per se SSH-RSA / ECDSA, but it throws two errors error1: supports only SSH_RSA, ECDSA error2: unable to generate fingerprint



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Hello, @khairpharma01

I will recommend you to check this tutorial on how to add your ssh key to your droplet:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/to-existing-droplet/

Also please make sure that you’re trying to connect as the root username.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards, Alex

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