My ssh keys were all right till I installed let’s encrypt. since then I had this error
port 22: Connection timed out
I’ve tried to reset my password and tried to install my ssh keys by hand and not from the terminal, nothing works! I can’t access my root user neither my deploy user. How can I fix that, please?
try creating a new user with sudo privileges - install your key(s) to that user and attempt a login
adduser SOMENAME
usermod -aG sudo SOMENAME
vi /home/SOMENAME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub paste your public key
cp -v /home/SOMENAME/.ssh/id_rsa /home/SOMENAME/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 /home/SOMENAME/.ssh/authorized_keys
Replace SOMENAME with a name of your choice.
Ensure your KeyAgent is running on your working computer
eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
I am assuming your key name is id_rsa and that you are working on a linux of macOS system
then try and ssh to your droplet with the new user using the IP of your droplet
ssh SOMENAME@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXXBut I can’t paste anything in the digital ocean terminal so I wasn’t able to paste the ssh keys, and I wrote the ssh key manually but I wasn’t able to save the file!!
hmmmm wow, that would be a long string.
Can you access it via FTP or anything? or can you scp the file to the droplet from another server using the console?
I don’t know, this is my first app ever and my experience with ssh started with it. Do ypu think there is any way to reset things the way they were?
Only if you have taken a backup or snapshot or you manually reverse all changes.
Can you ping your droplet’s IP address?