How to regain access to a Vultr Compute instance when youve lost your SSH private key
By default, all Vultr instances support password authentication, even if you deploy the instance with an SSH key.
If you lose access to your SSH private key, you can still log in to your instance using the root or linuxuser user password, which is randomly generated and accessible from the Vultr Console.
To retrieve the root password or linuxuser password:
If you manually disabled password authentication in your SSH configuration and have lost your private key, you will not be able to log in via SSH. In such cases, use the Web Console from the portal to regain access and reconfigure your SSH settings.
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