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qmaster
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 2nd Pair of SSH Keys
AS 400, iSeries, SFTP, SSH
I need to create second pair of SSH Keys for a User Profile ,Which has already working SSH Keys. If i normally do with SSH KEYGEN -T RSA ,i believe it will overwrite the existing environment and set new keys...Could You Please Advise me how to do this ?

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ASKED: July 10, 2012  6:37 AM
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If I recall correctly doesn’t ssh-keygen ask you where you wish to store the private/public key? The default is $home/.ssh/id_rsa for the private key and $home/.ssh/id_rsa.pub for the public. If you are not wanting to overwrite the previously generated key files then either specify a different filename in the key creation step, or go into $home/.ssh and rename the files already there if you want the default files to contain the new keys. Depends how your system is set up really.

andyhumphreys
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Thanks for that….If i rename the existing Keys and Create the Keys with their default names(id_rsa)…..Will there any confliction b/w old and new keys? or any other impacts?I Came to know other way by using belowSSH-KEGYEN -F”newkeysname” -tRSA…With this we will create a set of keys …and we’ve to create another identity file in SSH IFS path to look for the new keys…Could you please tell me which one will be best bet ?

qmaster
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