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

[Joe]

Hi,

backup the files or make a update!

cu Joe

On 10/10/2009 12:00 PM, Mark Knoop wrote:
> 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?
>
>