By Pranav Nahar
my colleague has recently resigned from the company he had the droplets access now when i try to ssh into it , it asks for password the issue is i don’t have that and some droplets have password as ssh keys any way i can retrieve them without causing any issues to our code base
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Hey!
If you don’t have the SSH password or the private key, you won’t be able to retrieve them directly from the Droplet.
A common approach is to use the Recovery Console from the DigitalOcean control panel to access the Droplet, then reset the password or add a new SSH key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
You can find the steps here: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/recovery/recovery-console/
Heya, @pranavnahar
You can use the recovery console to enter the droplet and reset the password from there
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/recovery/recovery-console/
Regards
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