keeping the old public key (id_rsa.pub) when upgrading Fedora
Joe
fedora at root-files.de
Sat Oct 10 13:22:14 UTC 2009
Hi,
backup the files or make a update!
cu Joe
On 10/10/2009 12:00 PM, Mark Knoop wrote:
> 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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