Question
How to regain access to droplet after losing public key and removing root ssh via password?
So, for security reasons I’m planning on disabling SSH via password, and only accepting SSH login via my public key by adding the following to my /etc/ssh/sshd_config
:
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
PasswordAuthentication no
UsePAM no
So my question is…how do I regain access if I lose my public key? Can I re-enable SSH login via root with password if I login to my Droplet’s Console? Or is there some other way to accomplish this?
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