By swammy
I want to connect to my droplet through SSH but I don’t have the key it was created with. I have always been using the web based console.
how can I create a new key and connect through my terminal on my Mac?
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Hello,
What you could do is:
- Reset your Droplet root password - you can do that through your digital ocean control panel.
- Then log in using the Droplet console to gain access to the Droplet’s SSH configuration.
- Enable password authentication by editing the SSH config and restarting the SSH service or add your new SSH key directly.
Actually there’s a step by step article on how to do that: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/resources/lost-ssh-key/
Hope that this helps!
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