reset ssh keys, even if only a public key in fedora?

Mary Ellen Foster foster at in.tum.de
Tue Aug 19 16:15:57 UTC 2008


2008/8/19 Felix Schwarz <felix.schwarz at oss.schwarz.eu>:
> Patrice Dumas schrieb:
>>
>> I just received the reset password mail, and it asks me to reset my ssh
>> key by doing ssh-keygen. However, if I recall well I only uploaded my public
>> key to the fedora server. Why would I want to reset my key pair?
>
> #fedora-admin:
> (17:40:55) mmcgrath: mpdehaan: well, couple of reasons.
> (17:41:16) mmcgrath: mpdehaan: 1) we removed all the keys as an affective
> way of disabling access everywhere while we're working
> (17:41:42) mmcgrath: and 2) we decided it wasn't a bad idea to have people
> fix it on their own, it helps with stuff like pruning, etc.

So, does this mean we can re-upload the *same* public key as before,
or do we need to generate a new one?

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh




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