Cleaning Up Unused Files to Free Up Disk Space

[FriedCheese (Ryan)]

That looks to me like HA doesn’t like the public key (maybe formatting). Instead of using a USB, I opted to go this route:

HOWTO: How to access the Home Assistant OS host itself over ssh

It took a while to figure this out, so I might as well document this. Looking at the amount of search hits on this subject, I wasn’t not the only one that needed access to the host itself. When debugging an issue related to the OS or docker, you might need access to the host itself. The Terminal & SSH Add-on drops you in a container, while this might be enough for users, you sometimes want to access the real operating system, to examine some docker issue for example. There is a well written do…

So, at step 2, you’ll open the publickey file and copy the contents into the key section under configuration for the Terminal & SSH add-on. Then, use the add-on to run the commands for steps 2 and 3.

I’d also use a password free private key.