On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 12:31 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, Robert Citek wrote: > > > Something sounds suspicious or pieces to the puzzle are missing. Changing > > the passphrase on a private key shouldn't change anything on the public > > key side. Could it be that someone slipped a different public key in your > > authorized_keys file? > > Robert, > > No. > > I used `ssh-keygen -p -f ~/.ssh/id_ed.....` and assumed it generated the > pair of private and public keys. > > I tried logging in my web host account using the new password and it was > rejected a member of the community suggested that I check the public key > fingerprint (which I actually don't know how to do), so I added the new > public key generated by ssh-keygen and then I was able to log in. > > this does not preclude the possibility of "something" happening to the public key on the web host end. since whatever was there has now been replaced, we have no way of knowing what it was. -wes
