Question
How do i add an ssh key to an existing droplet?
- Posted on November 22, 2014
Asked by patrick643537
Hello,
I have been trying to add a public key on a pre-existing droplet and I am not able to connect although I have tried to paste it on the original SSH KEY, and on a new key. I have followed this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-digitalocean-droplets tutorial, but it is not really showing it well on how i can get into a preconfigured drop-let.
Thank you
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You can add an ssh key to an existing droplet by appending the public key (
ssh-rsa ...) to/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keysor/root/.ssh/authorized_keys.If you’re on Linux, you can run the following command to do that automatically:
On OSX, you can run this command instead:
I got it to work by adding the ssh key to both /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and /root/.ssh known_hosts then restarting the droplet
The following have worked for me:
NB key is a file containing the id_rsa.pub value