Re: Moving the SSH key from one machine to another

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly@xxxxxxx>]

Jeremy -

I would not expect this to be a problem.  I've done similar things in 
that several of the Alpha nodes in my cluster that are usually addressed 
by a single common name (via DNS round-robin) each have keys that were 
copied from one of the group.

-ken

Jeremy Begg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are moving from;
> MultiNet V5.1 Rev A-X, COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz, OpenVMS AXP V8.3
>
> to:
> MultiNet V5.2 Rev A-X, HP rx2660  (1.59GHz/9.0MB), OpenVMS I64 V8.3-1H1
>
> The Integrity server will get the hostname and IP address presently in use
> by the AlphaServer.
>
> We'd like to make the transition for users as seemless as possible.  A
> number of users rely on SSH a fair bit.  Can we copy the SSH key files
> HOSTKEY. and HOSTKEY.PUB from one server to the other, so that users don't
> get an error from their SSH clients when they first log in to the Integrity
> server?  (The error we would expect them to see is something like "remote
> host key has changed, do you want to continue?")
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Jeremy Begg
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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
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