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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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:
- Create GitHub repo and put your key in it
- Clone the repo using console
- Run cat /path/to/cloned/github/project/key | cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
NB key is a file containing the id_rsa.pub value
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