Can somebody explain copy / paste in the console?

This problem is so annoying, here’s how I got round it:

copy your ssh key into Notepad++, select all text, go to: Edit > Convert Case to > iNVERT cASE

Now copy and paste the inverted key into the Digital Ocean console, which will invert it back to the original.

Ugh.

Hi,

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

Hello, all

Keep in mind that you can also put the key in a file hosted on any Dropbox or remote server and then you can just download it via the console using curl or wget

This should do the job for you as well.

The other option is to temporary enable the PasswordAuthentication from no to yes in order to access your droplet using password and then once you’ve entered your key to disable the PasswordAuthentication again. This way is considered more secure than uploading the key to a Dropbox in case you don’t have any other server to us.

2. Login to the console on DigitalOcean website.
3. Type sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
4. Change PasswordAuthentication from “no” to “yes” and save the file
5. Restart the ssh service:

systemctl restart sshd.service

5. 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
6. Login with password
7. Type sudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
8. Paste public key text here and save the file
9. Type sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
10. Change PasswordAuthentication from “yes” to “no” and save the file
11. Log out and attempt to log back in (if using PuTTY make sure you set up auth parameters to point to your private key)

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex