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WARNING: Your password has expired. Password change required but no TTY available.

Posted on February 25, 2021

Hi,

I get this error when trying to upload an ssh public key to my droplet which is running on Ubuntu 20.04 ( Locally Using ssh-copy-id and Password-Based Access METHOD)

I tried Resetting root password and trying again but same thing happened

What should I do? thank you



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I solved this by using :

ssh -i ~/path/to/keyfile root@ip

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