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Re: process to generate a new RSA Connection key.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 1:54 PM Gerald Magnuson <gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have been struggling with this for too long, so I'll just ask some
obvious questions.
We SSH to many different customers/vendors, but use the SAME profile (i.e.
same /home/USERPRF/.ssh path/key)
Is this normal/ proper/ crazy as heck ?


Yes. A public key is a public key.


I see that SSH keys "don't expire", but a vendor requires we have a new key
every 2 years. is there a process to
only generate a new public for them, leaving the other public key alone
that all the other cust/vend use?


Yes. Your commands like ssh and scp that use these keys all accept an
optional switch to indicate which of possibly many identity files (key
pairs) stored either in your $HOME/.ssh directory or elsewhere are to be
applied to this converstaion.



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