[nflug] ssh & host keys

[Jason Lasker]

This has worked for me...

Shut down the ssh server
Install the old keys
Restart the server

Jason Lasker
Senior Project Manager/Systems Administrator
Science and Engineering Node Services
University at Buffalo 
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-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Cyber Source
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:56 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] ssh & host keys

ah ok, no but I still have the saved files, is it just a matter of 
copying the *key* files into the new /etc/ssh?

Darin Perusich wrote:
> Are you using the old ssh keys from the server, /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*?
> You'll need to install them or all your clients are going to get the
> warning about the key changing.
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>   
>> Hello All,
>>  I just redid my backup server where I have alot of remote connections
>> coming in to rsync data with key based authentications. I recreated
>> things (copy .ssh) of users, etc.. so that the authentication is still
>> cool but the remote connections are failing because it's saying the
>> remote host id has changed and wondering about a man in the middle
>> attack. I have all the old data saved and I assumed all id info for ssh
>> would be in the relative .ssh folders (known hosts, etc). What am I
>> missing here? If I have to fix all the remote connections, it would be a
>> major pain. Advice? TIA
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