[PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Oct 26 12:48:30 UTC 2016


On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Paul Mullen wrote:

> You can leave them in ~/.ssh if you rename them before creating new keys.
> Append "-prev" or something to the file name of both keys. If you need to
> use the old key pair, specify the path to the private key with ssh's "-i"
> option. E.g., "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-prev"

   Thank you for the lesson Paul. Does make it easier than moving them to a
different directory.

Regards,

Rich



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