Cannot SSH to droplet after OS upgrade

Use Access Console to log in using the console.

If you changed the ssh port previously, confirm its value in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

If you haven’t changed the root password, restart the droplet and boot into single user mode, mount the filesystem and change the root password. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/boot-introduction.html https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/recover-freebsd-root-access-when-you-forgot-the-password/

Good luck!

Hello, @versawestusersgroup

Could you please let me know if you’re getting a Permission denied (publickey) error message when you try to ssh to your droplet?

I will recommend you to follow this tutorial and setup new pair of ssh keys and then upload them to your droplet:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2

The first step is to create the key pair on the client machine (there is a good chance that this will just be your computer):

ssh-keygen -t rsa

If you have password authentication enabled on your droplet you can upload the id_rsa.pub key file directly to your droplet using the follow command:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@IPaddress "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && chmod 700 ~/.ssh && cat >>  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

• change the IPaddress with the IP address of the droplet.

Hope this helps!

Let me know how it goes.

Regards, Alex