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my machine crashed i lost my terminal access to the droplet Permission denied (publickey).

Posted April 7, 2018 734

Debian DigitalOcean

how to get the new public and private key for my drop let so that i can access the droplet by terminal

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Tamkings

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jasonjpeters April 7, 2018

Most likely you just need to load your key into your host machines ssh-agent - For MacOS or Linux you can use the following…

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add /path/to/private/key

or

ssh -i /path/to/private/key username@droplet

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Tamkings April 7, 2018

still giving me Permission denied (publickey).
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- jasonjpeters April 7, 2018
  
  try issuing killall ssh-agent first - if you have multiple keys then it may be trying the wrong ones first which cause it to fail out.
  
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