Giving access to a single droplet

Posted October 7, 2014

This is a simple question, but I’m more of UI than command line guy by a large magnitude. If I want to create a droplet for a small project and give a random Odesk developer access and then kill that droplet in a month with the access, what should I be doing for my own security?

I want them to have full access to that droplet but obviously my my digital ocean account.

darcyvoutt

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Kamal Nasser • October 7, 2014

You can add their SSH key to your droplet without giving them your DigitalOcean account credentials. See How To Use SSH Keys with DigitalOcean Droplets | DigitalOcean.

This way they won’t have access to anything once you destroy the droplet.

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