It’s possible to allow more than one SSH key to access your instance. To do
so, you need to add public keys to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. You can do
this with the echo command.
Tip
You can also import SSH keys from GitHub.Note
This FAQ assumes that you’ve already generated another SSH key pair, that is, a private key and a public key.
Public keys look like this:
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIK5HIO+OQSyFjz0clkvg+48YAihYMo5J7AGKiq+9Alg8 user@hostname
SSH into your instance as you normally do and run:
echo 'PUBLIC-KEY' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Replace PUBLIC-KEY with the public key you want to add to your instance.
Make sure to keep the single quotes (' ').
You should now be able to log into your instance using the SSH key you just added.
Tip
You can make sure the public key has been added by running:
cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
The last line of output should be the public key you just added.