Question
Can't access droplet any more after adding a new SSH key
I initially created a droplet and added my SSH key in the creation process. It worked well, I could easily connect to server from my local machine via SSH. However, I recently had to reinstall my OS and lost my saved ssh key, so have had to create a new ssh key. I can’t get it to work. I have tried the commands and get these error messages:
C:\ $ ssh root@droplet IP
root@droplet IP: Permission denied (publickey).
C:\ $ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@droplet IP
root@droplet IP: Permission denied (publickey).
Also, I have deleted my original ssh key from my digitalocean droplet account to try and resolve this but that has not helped.
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