Question

copy-paste doesn't work from your console

Posted on February 4, 2017
DigitalOcean Ubuntu
Asked by pjpark

How the heck do I copy or paste anything from the web console? I’ve tried both Safari and Chrome. I’m trying to get ssh to work but I can’t copy/paste keys or get authorized any other way.

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pjpark • February 4, 2017

Accepted Answer

I got it. I just needed to ssh in as root to set everything up.

Jonathan Tittle • February 4, 2017

@pjpark

If you’re on a MacBook / MacBook Pro, the best option is to use Terminal or Hyper – on Windows, it’s best to use PuTTy.

The console that’s available through the DigitalOcean Control Panel requires that you type in input – you won’t be able to CMD+V or CTRL+V it in.

thedavidthomas • July 13, 2017

Was locked out due to disabling password authentication and Permission denied (publickey).

On a Mac, wrote an AppleScript to type.

In Script Editor located /Applications/Utilities/Script Editor

tell application "System Events"
	set textToType to "ssh-rsa AAAAB..."
	delay 20
	repeat with i from 1 to count characters of textToType
		keystroke (character i of textToType)
		delay 0.6
	end repeat
end tell

Make sure to have ~/.ssh/authorized_keys already open in an editor and in insert mode waiting to type

Press play

After a 20 second delay (hopefully, enough time to change to the console browser window ready for the typing to start) this will type the text inside set textToType to emulating keystrokes