By georgesemaan
I created my first droplet and I successfully logged in as root using the terminal from the email DO sent me.
Do I still need to generate a new key or was it created automatically upon installation?
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We’ve recently deployed a fix - if you have been able to successfully ssh in there’s no need to generate new ssh host keys. :]
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