Re: Moving private SSH keys to new machine?
From: Barton L. Phillips (bartonphillips_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 03/08/05
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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:37:19 GMT
me wrote:
> John Reese wrote:
>
>> I realize now that my message was pretty vague. Apologies.
>>
>> We are bringing a new production server on-line. There are hundreds of
>> SSH
>> clients with a public key to the old machine; our goal is to move the
>> keys
>> from the old server to the new one in a manner that is acceptable to the
>> holders of the public keys.
>>
>> I have tried the crude method -- I have moved *all* the old keys to the
>> new server with the same IP as the old server -- but the clients still
>> are
>> refusing to log on, generating a man-in-the-middle warning.
>>
>> Any idea how we can get past this?
>>
>> John Reese
>>
>> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:07:29 +0000, Jem Berkes wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Can private SSH keys be moved to a different computer?
>>>
>>>
>>> Assuming you're using OpenSSH, yes. Just copy the appropriate files
>>> over (ssh_host* under etc/ssh)
This may not be acceptable but all the clients need to do is remove the
old entry from the know_hosts or know_hosts2 file. I know this is
probably not the way you want to solve the problem.
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