So I borked my config and decided to just reset everything and rebuilt my droplet. I have an SSH key setup on my DigitalOcean account. After rebuilding, the SSH key doesn’t work and I’m unable to log in using a password since it only wants a key.
I can log in with the password on the web console, but that thing is terrible. I can view authorized_key and see that it’s not actually using the one I have in my account, but I can’t copy and paste the correct key in because the console is so broken.
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The solution was to log in using the web access console and then do the steps here to enable a password https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/enable-both-password-and-key-file-to-ssh-logon-in then log in with a real ssh client so that you can actually copy and paste the key.
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