Thread: How do I run OpenSSH?
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2008-08-29 , 03:33
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
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Not necessarily. If someone has stolen your tablet or if you suspect any kind of abuse, you can tell the ssh server on your laptop or desktop to regenerate private server-side keys so that anyone logging in needs new keys to connect to it.
Actually, you'd want to remove the compromised client's public keys from the 'authorized_keys' file(s) for any accounts on any machines you care about.

Regenerating keys on the server isn't going to do anything useful, aside from generating 'hey, the key for this server changed' messages for any clients that connect to a server with new keys, and happen to have different server keys cached.
Last edited by slvr32; 2008-08-29 at 03:36.