By murkythunder
Hey guys, I’m a new user, so I may be missing something obvious… I’m running windows and a DO ubuntu server. I created a key with puttygen, created a DO server with that key, then accessed the server with putty with my key.
Now here’s where I’m confused. I opened up filezilla, entered in my server ip for the host, and root for the user, and left the password blank… and I got in. Why is this? I tried logging into the server again via a ftp client on my android, same ip, same user, no password, but couldn’t get in.
So did my server relate my computer with my key, allowing me to access my server without a password, as long as it recognizes my computer?
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