keeping the old public key (id_rsa.pub) when upgrading Fedora

[Mark Knoop]

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?

-- 
Mark Knoop