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Re: Moving the SSH key from one machine to another

Subject: Re: Moving the SSH key from one machine to another
From: Jim <mckinneyj@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:31:38 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet

On Jul 21, 12:39 am, Jeremy Begg <jer...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?")
>

Yes, doing as you suggest will avoid users having to deal with SSH's
changed-key challenge.


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