Good day!
I am currently running Ubuntu distro and I would like to change it. No problem there, I can do that.
What I am concerned about is my remote website server that I have.
I have followed a tutorial creating it, protecting it with shh key, removing the need to type password every time when I am accessing it through the terminal as [email protected].
I assume that since my machine has the private key and I gave my server the public key, they can communicate this way easily without the password that my remote server has provided me. That is handy, yes.
BUT what if I change distro, clean all the partitions before doing so and then, in my new distro I will try to access my remote server. I HOPE it will ask me for the password that the server provided me and NOT the ssh key that I have generated on my previous distro.
1. Should I prepare for that and save my private key somewhere somehow and then in the newly installed distro paste in the system so the server recognizes it?
2. Should I not worry and try to connect to the server on my new distro and then set up a new ssh key?
3. something else?
Looking forward for a reply!
I am 26 and its the first time in my life I am using a FORUM. Linux has forced me to look for various unanswered solutions on the web, since there is no one around me using Linux, I think being a member of a Linux forum will prove to be useful along the way
Arvygasp
I am currently running Ubuntu distro and I would like to change it. No problem there, I can do that.
What I am concerned about is my remote website server that I have.
I have followed a tutorial creating it, protecting it with shh key, removing the need to type password every time when I am accessing it through the terminal as [email protected].
I assume that since my machine has the private key and I gave my server the public key, they can communicate this way easily without the password that my remote server has provided me. That is handy, yes.
BUT what if I change distro, clean all the partitions before doing so and then, in my new distro I will try to access my remote server. I HOPE it will ask me for the password that the server provided me and NOT the ssh key that I have generated on my previous distro.
1. Should I prepare for that and save my private key somewhere somehow and then in the newly installed distro paste in the system so the server recognizes it?
2. Should I not worry and try to connect to the server on my new distro and then set up a new ssh key?
3. something else?
Looking forward for a reply!
I am 26 and its the first time in my life I am using a FORUM. Linux has forced me to look for various unanswered solutions on the web, since there is no one around me using Linux, I think being a member of a Linux forum will prove to be useful along the way
Arvygasp