By kukulcanwar
I am revisiting my application on digitalocean but my keys were on a hard drive that just died. I tried using putty to initiate ssh and it asked me for my username, which I did not know so I went about changing the password inside digital ocean.
I was able to access the terminal inside digital ocean but it would not let me modify any files. I suppose I need to change permissions but since I lost root access, I am at a loss as to what to do.
Every time I try to enter either via git bash or putty, I get an error. In gitbash, Permission denied (publicKey). In Putty, Server refused your key. I followed about 11 tutorials and no luck. I have the private key stored in my .ssh folder as private.ppk as well as my public key.
I copied the single line code into the interface provided by digitalocean and gave it a unique name. In putty, I pointed to the private key.
If anyone can help me with this I would greatly apprecate it. Thank you in advance.
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Hi @kukulcanwar,
The eaisiest thing to do is, enter your DigitalOcean Droplet Console and from there add your new SSH KEY to the
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
file, OR enable PasswordAuthentication from the sshd_config file located in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Once you edit the file don’t forger to restart your sshd service
service sshd restart
Regards, KFSys
Hello, @kukulcanwar
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 to access the console you can than 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 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 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)
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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