How to Connect to Your Droplet While Having SSH Issues

Once a week, Fred will answer your questions. Whether you have a question about the DigitalOcean platform, an issue with a specific technology or even high-level questions about the tech industry, Fred will help you! This week, Fred is helping you get access to your Droplet while having SSH issues.

Note that there are other ways to achieve this, like using ssh-copy-id on macOS or Linux, but I wanted to show the most generic way of doing it.

[itcloudguy]

I documented everything you did. And now I can connect to my droplet from my workstation! Thank you very much! To do it my self I could better understand how ssh keys work. Now I know :)

[billschnoebelen]

Can you explain how to manage this with different computers on different OS, windows and linx? I fight with this everytime I sit down at a new computer. BTW: This did work in a roundabout way.

[greaterworkstechnologies]

Great one here but I have some few questions? It asks for my my passphrase anytime I try to connect. Also why must the user always be root?

[manofculture]

Turns out running *sudo ufw enable* is what broke it for me.. re-creating the droplet, running *sudo ufw enable* then allowing the following *sudo ufw allow '22/tcp'* and *sudo ufw allow 'OpenSSH'* fixed my issue

[ThriveWithLouise]

so the reason its saying access denied when i enter the password is because I havent created an ssh key, is that right? if so how do i create it with an existing droplet, i chose password option but everytime i use that password to try to access my server through putty it says access denied

[HabitsHunter]

termimal üzerinden ya da ssh üzerinden bağanırken connection error hatası alıyorum fakat sunucu açık neden olabilir

[david]

Trying to Copy and paste my public key to authorized_file in my droplet from the recovery console isn’t working.

[imonwb]

I was expecting tutorials on how you could add new ssh key (new computer) to existing droplet.

[serafindesigns]

Didn't work for me. Ugh What a nightmare!