By sanhai0224
hi , i have generate a rsa keypair and added the pubkey into my account security settings, but i still cannot log in my server , if remember correctly , i must log in from terminal first, then add the pubkey into ~/.ssh/auth**_key file manually, but i am in very embarrassed case, maybe i have disabled password login long time ago ,what can i do now, expecting a answer, thank you in advance.
excuse me if there are some ambiguous expressions , english is not my mother tongue.
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If you’re having issues logging in to your Droplet via SSH and have password login disabled, you can still recover the Droplet. You’ll need to reset your password and use the web-based recovery console gain access. Check out this article from the DigitalOcean product documentation for step by step instructions:
Hello there,
You can check our article on How to Upload an SSH Public Key to an Existing Droplet
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/to-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:
- Login to the console on the DigitalOcean website.
- Type
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change
PasswordAuthenticationfrom “no” to “yes” and save the file - Open a terminal on your computer and type ssh username@[hostname or IP address] or if on a Windows box use PuTTY for password login making sure authentication parameters aren’t pointing to a private key
- Login with a password
- Type
sudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys - Paste public key text here and save the file
- Type
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change
PasswordAuthenticationfrom “yes” to “no” and save the file - Log out and attempt to log back in (if using PuTTY make sure you set up auth parameters to point to your private key)
You can then upload the key using this command:
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mykey user@droplet
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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