By mrdinghy
Basically, for some reason the copy paste does not work between my local machine where I created the key pair and pasting into console into the authorized_keys file. It won’t recognize the correct case of the paste. Really odd.
I need to do this because my pass phrase for the existing key does not work. I am 99% sure that its the original , correct passphrase.
I would like to avoid creating a whole new droplet.
Thanks Steve
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Hi @mrdinghy,
How are you trying to paste the information into your Web Console. Are you using the key combinations CTRL + V or CTRL + SHIFT + V. If you are not, you should use the second option I mentioned - CTRL + SHIFT + V. In terminals, usually the pasting and copying is done with CTRL + SHIFT. This is because the CTRL + C and CTRL + V key combinations are reserved for other stuff.
Please try with the suggestion and let me know how did it go.
Regards, KFSys
It never did go that way. I tried everything from new keyboard. The cntrl-shift-v and mouse right paste never got a clean version on the DO console. I had to ftp a file with the correct key to the server (thank god that worked) and renamed this to authorized_keys. Works for now… thanks
Hello, mrdinghy
Keep in mind that you can also put the key in a file hosted on any Dropbox or remote server and then you can just download it via the console using curl or wget
This should do the job for you as well.
The other option is to temporary enable the PasswordAuthentication from no to yes in order to access your droplet using password and then once you’ve entered your key to disable the PasswordAuthentication again. This way is considered more secure than uploading the key to a Dropbox in case you don’t have any other server to us.
- Login to the console on DigitalOcean website.
- Type
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change
PasswordAuthenticationfrom “no” to “yes” and save the file - Open a terminal on your computer and type ssh username@[hostname or IP address] or if on a Windows box use PuTTY for password login making sure authentication parameters aren’t pointing to a private key
- Login with password
- Type
sudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys - Paste public key text here and save the file
- Type
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change
PasswordAuthenticationfrom “yes” to “no” and save the file - Log out and attempt to log back in (if using PuTTY make sure you set up auth parameters to point to your private key)
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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