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Documentation around SSH Keys and Password Auth for Droplets

Posted on April 26, 2022

I’ve been using the DigitalOcean API and specifying SSH keys for my droplets and I saw some posts about disabling password auth, so I went digging and all my droplets had it off already. I assume this is because I specified the SSH keys. Is there documentation specifying this behavior? I would like to have something to point at when asked.



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Hello,

Yes indeed, this is highlighted when creating a new server:

SSH keys screenshot

Also for more information, you can take a look at the documentation here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

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