keeping the old public key (id_rsa.pub) when upgrading Fedora
Mark Knoop
mark at opus11.net
Sat Oct 10 10:00:00 UTC 2009
At 11:52 on 10 Oct 2009, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
> I have several fedora machines which I upgrade/reinstall, from time
> to time.
>
> I do this by reinstalling Fedora (I know that there is an upgrade
> option for Fedora but I prefer to reinstall).
> When doing so, the /root/.ssh folder is of course deleted.
> Now, on some of these machine, I have a public key which is installed
> on several servers to enable me
> ssh access to these machines without typing the password.
> The public key is generated thus:
> ssh-keygen -t rsa
> And it generates 2 files:
> id_rsa and id_rsa.pub
> And I paste the contents of id_rsa.pub to the server
> /root./ssh/authorized_keys (or /root./ssh/authorized_keys2).
>
>
> Any idea if there is a way to keep the id_rsa.pub when reinstalling
> Fedora ?
How about backing it up?
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Mark Knoop
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