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

Posted on April 7, 2018

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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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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