Centos 7 Generate Ssh Host Key

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How to regenerate new ssh server keys This is an unusual topic since most distribution create these keys for you during the installation of the OpenSSH server package. But it may be useful to be able generate new server keys from time to time, this happen to me when I duplicate Virtual Private Server which contains an installed ssh package. SSH access is by public key authentication and, by default, the Vagrant insecure private key is required. Image variants. OpenSSH 7.4 / Supervisor 4.0 / EPEL/IUS/SCL Repositories - CentOS-7. Run up an SFTP container named 'sftp.1' from the docker image 'jdeathe/centos-ssh' on port 2021 of your docker host. How do I install knownhost keys for ssh manually? Ask Question. I've got a secure transmission system where I'm pushing host keys to a database and I'm trying to install keys generated on a Ubuntu 15 machines and install them them on a SLES 11 machine and I'm trying to install keys generated on a Centos 7 machine on that Ubuntu 15 machine.

ne my user leaves the office and I would like to disable her access to our UNIX or Linux system. How do I delete ssh key from the UNIX systems so that user can not log in?

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One can delete SSH Keys using the following simple method on Linux or Unix-like systems.

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How to delete SSH keys on Linux or Unix

The first step is to disable user login using command as follows:

Linux Lock An Account

Log in as root user:
sudo -i
Say lock out user named vivek. The syntax is:
# passwd -l userName
# passwd -l vivek

FreeBSD Local An Account

# pw lock userName
# pw local vivek

Solaris / HP-UX UNIX Lock An Account

# passwd -l userNameL
# passwd -l vivek

Remove SSH Keys

The $HOME/.ssh/ stores all required ssh keys. Simply rename the directory using the mv command or delete the directory using rm command
# mv /home/vivek/.ssh /home/vivek/nosshlogin
OR
# rm -rf /home/vivek/.ssh
For remote server edit $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys or $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file and remove public key. This will delete login from home computer into your server. Finally, you can always delete user from your system using the pw on FreeBSD or userdel on Linux / UNIX.

A note about removing a particular host key from SSH’s known_hosts file

Use the ssh-keygen command as follows
ssh-keygen -R your-hostname
ssh-keygen -R server1.cyberciti.biz

DenyUsers option can block any user

Another option is to edit the sshd_config file on your remove Unix or Linux server. From the man page:

DenyUsers option can block any user. This option can be followed by a list of user name patterns, separated by spaces. Login is disallowed for user names that match one of the patterns. Only user names are valid; a numerical user ID (UID) is not recognized. By default, login is allowed for all users. If the pattern takes the form USER@HOST then USER and HOST are separately checked, restricting logins to particular users from particular hosts.

So edit file:
sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Block user vivek from log in, append or modify as follows:
DenyUsers vivek
Say you want to deny wendy and vivek users, run:
DenyUsers vivek, wendy
Save and close the file. Reload or restart the sshd service on Linux or Unix
sudo systemctl restart sshd
OR
sudo service sshd restart
For more info see:

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When I clone an OS image to a new, identical hardware PC I of course need to change the host name in a couple of places on the new machine. I suspect it is also good practice to generate new ssh keys for use by openssh server. I found an article here http://www.softec.lu/site/DevelopersCor ... rateNewSsh which outlines the process.
I can generate new dsa, ecdsa and rsa keys using the commands in the article. However, I also find an ed25519 key in /etc/ssh. It was dated the same as the other keys - the data I installed the original OS. Employing my usual monkey see monkey copy/paste/tweak approach I tried the commandThe seems to have worked. It generated keypair files, a fingerprint and a randomart image. The -N and -t parameters seem to be correct according to the man page.

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Can anyone confirm that I have supplied all of the necessary inputs to create a valid ed2519 key? Or a way I can test the key for validity?
TIA,

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Ken