Afaik, that's not possible, unless you have a backup of your .ssk folder. Regards, - - iarly selbir | ski0s :wq! <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Mark Ryden <<a href="mailto:markryde@gmail.com">markryde@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hello, 狢 have a machine on which I deleted the /root/.ssh folder; now , I generated in the past a key file , with ssh-keygen -t rsa I pasted the contents of the public key file into some servers (authorized_keys2), so I can ssh to them without being prompted for a password. Now, I cannot ssh to these mecahines. Is there anyway I can recover the old keys I had ? Running "ssh-keygen -t rsa" does not solve the problem unless I **again** paste the nre gernerated key into the new machines. Rgs, Mark -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div>