Question

Can somebody explain copy / paste in the console?

Posted February 19, 2019 2.3k

DigitalOcean Ubuntu 18.04

I’ve never seen something like this.

I open the my Ubuntu console, it works (barely)

I tried to copy a SSH key via the clipboard, since nothing else works

It translates the lower case to upper case

This is what I’m copying:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAhv+3iCamfYpQlUBxsMcIsbSFZZcQADlu2ft6nibKukgdrt0wsC38yYMU9MzCk9R8t937E8TXTkmqvUH9djT/b6R

This is what the POS of a terminal copies:
SSH-RSA aaaab4nZAc1YC…

Can somebody try to explain?

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luisferfranco

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Madds17 February 19, 2019

Hi,

Are you using the console within the Digital Ocean dashboard (opens in the browser) or locally on your machine?

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luisferfranco February 19, 2019

Yes

Because was the only thing that worked. You must use SSH to login to the droplet, there’s no other way, several years ago you could use a password (I don’t know if its because of the image I selected), so there was no way to put a public key in the server other than trying to copy/paste, no FTP, no SSH, no nothing, because there isn’t a public key.

In the end, I loaded the keys to my account, destroyed the droplet and created a new one with the keys

I lost so much time trying to copy/paste with this bizarre behaivour. This doesn’t happen when I use PuTTY or any other mean
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- dhavalchheda April 28, 2019
  
  There will be times when you will need to copy paste again your ssh keys (like when you are changing your development machine).
  Try to follow the steps from answers in this question.
  https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/copy-and-paste-into-console
  
  Basically you will need to load up your public keys in a file and put it in a public location like gist or something like that and pull that file to your server and append it to your authorized_keys.
  
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