Hi,
We reset the root password and now the droplet is not booted, the website is down.
I can’t access the server via ssh?
Thanks.
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I was having the same issue. I tried logging in via the DigitalOcean console, but I had never set a password so I was unable to. After requesting a new root password via email, I was able to log in via the console but now logging in via ssh no longer worked.
The reason for this was that I had disabled password login in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
as a security measure:However, now that my root account had a password set, it never showed me the password prompt when logging in via ssh. Instead I’d be greeted by the
Permission denied (publickey)
error.To solve this, you can either enable password authentication, simply comment out the
PasswordAuthentication
line in yoursshd_config
. But this will require you to enter your password every time you log in via ssh. Or you can remove your root password entirely usingNote that you should only do this if you have public key authentication setup. Otherwise not having a password would naturally be very insecure. Tbh, I’m not 100% if not having a password is very secure, even with public key authentication. But I’ve been doing it like this without any issues for quite some time now.
Hello there,
You can check our article on How to Upload an SSH Public Key to an Existing Droplet
You can access the droplet from the DigitalOcean console and then temporary enable the PasswordAuthentication on your droplet and access the droplet with a password to upload the ssh-key.
If you haven’t created new pair of keys you’ll need to do that first.
You can enable PasswordAuthentication for your Droplet by modifying your
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
file. Once set to Yes restart the SSH service and connect via an SSH client for a more stable connection. You can then modify your~/.ssh/authorized_keys
file to add the appropriate public key.This change can be made from the DigitalOcean’s console. If you’re having issues accessing the console you can then reach to our amazing support team that can help you further with this.
To enable the
PasswordAuthentication
follow these steps:sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PasswordAuthentication
from “no” to “yes” and save the filesudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PasswordAuthentication
from “yes” to “no” and save the fileYou can then upload the key using this command:
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mykey user@droplet
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
Hi @alimustafakhan1,
In order to enter the DigitalOcean console, you need to use the root user and root user’s password. You can reset the password again from the Access menu I’ve mentioned earlier in your Control Panel. Once you receive the password there you can use it to connect to the DigitalOcean droplet Console.