Hi all. Once I moved to another distro I can't seem to ssh to my server. I'm considering tearing down the old server (I have a copy of everything) and set up a new one. Meaning yretek.com might change its certificates. Just so you know

🏕️ Yretek

Jan 10 · 4 months ago · 🤔 1

6 Comments ↓

🚀 stack · Jan 10 at 22:38:

Yikes! Did you forget to copy your .ssh directory before blowing it away?

🍭 jmjl · Jan 11 at 16:21:

Doesn't your-server.de offer some way to open a vnc session to the TTY or something? if so, just reboot the host, and when booting edit the cmdline to add init=/bin/sh, and then add your ssh key and halt -f (IIRC), and then boot again.

🏕️ Yretek [OP] · Jan 11 at 18:07:

@stack No, I didn't, I moved the thing to an external drive, the whole .ssh folder, seemed good to go, but it didn't work out for some reason

🏕️ Yretek [OP] · Jan 11 at 18:08:

Er.. thank you, it's too late by now

😎 flipperzero · Jan 12 at 19:06:

@Yretek if you have your .ssh folder, why don't you just copy the cert back in place to your new install? Maybe you'll have to configure something in ssh_config in /etc/ssh/ or maybe something is interfering with your ability to connect in your known_hosts in that .ssh folder iirc

🚀 Markus_Ron · Jan 13 at 06:36:

Few things, you might want to just backup the old certificate so it does not confuse people. Maybe setup a PGP key so you can prove you are the owner / control the new stuff you are setting up. Can be useful.