By Username351
The title says it all, I can’t connect to my droplet anymore, it worked before but now i can’t access it via putty or WinSCP, it just says access denied everytime. How can I fix that?
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Hello,
Have you tried generating an SSH key for Putty and then adding this key toy our ~/.ssh/authorized_keys folder?
From what I understand there is access to your droplet however only by using the console. This would mean your SSH key is most probably incorrect or you don’t have one added from the system you are connecting to. In such a case as said, I’ll recommend generating the key with the Putty program and inserting it on your server.
Regards, KFSys
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