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Server access – There must be a better way

#1
So I've setup a couple of servers on Hetzner. One in particular selfhosts Sentry, Grafana,(Prometheus and Loki).

My SSH key is provisioned...

I need help with DevOps... but there seems to be no simple way to provision another SSH key.

Support suggested this:

"1. Go to the Rescue section of your server, but instead of the (reset root password) button, click the Activate Rescue & Reset button. Your server will then boot into the rescue system. 2. Connect to your server via SSH using the Rescue credentials. 3. execute the following commands in Rescue: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt chroot-prepare /mnt chroot /mnt From this point you can now navigate through the file structure of your Cloud Servers primary disc. SSH keys for the root user are stored in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys.

4. Restart your server using the reboot command and log in using the new SSH key."

But seems pretty scary process on a server running multiple application.

There must be a better way!