Force license update on server (without SSH)?

[guneyd]

Hi guys,

I have a small server (VPS) on which I host some of my personal websites and family. For this I make use of a personal Directadmin license and recently my license expired. I've renewed the license last week, but whenever I try to login to my Directadmin control panel on the server I get an error message:

License has expired
Current Server Time: Tue Mar 30 09:28:22 2021

I was hoping that a daily or weekly cronjob (for Directadmin updates) would fix my access, but sadly a week has passed and I keep getting the same message.

The reason I do not have access to the server (SSH), is because the SSH keys were installed on my work notebook. My work notebook is currently at the office and because of Covid, I prefer not to go the office to pick it up. Whilst there is no real hurry and I could always pickup my notebook as a last resort, I was wondering whether there was a way to force a license upgrade on my server without SSH access?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Daniel_Dog]

If your license ID did not change the following will work:
Login and make sure your on the admin level.
Go to “Licensing / Updates” tab.
Then click on the ”Update license” button.

If your license ID did change then this is no way to update the license without access to SSH/the server.

And some general advice:
Why do not not have a backup SSH key?
If you use SSH keys and do not allow password login its a must (And in my view a requirement) to always have 2 keys to login with.
The second key can be on a 1mb USB under your bed for all i care. But that will prevent you from not being able to access SSH when you need/want to.
And what are you gonna do when something happens to your laptop? just not access the server forever? (I am not trying to be rude but its an incredible bad idea to not have a spare/backup SSH key in cases of the “normal” keys getting lost/destroyed.)