Having new installations of Slackware-14.2 on three hosts now (two more to
go after I get these three fully functional), I want to change my ssh
private and public keys using a new passphrase and type.

   Now, ~/.ssh/ contains authorized_keys, known_hosts, and id_dsa. My web
search finds suggestions to use Ed25519, which 'man ssh-keygen' lists as an
option. And, /etc/ssh/ contains the following files:

moduli                ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub    ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
ssh_config            ssh_host_ed25519_key      sshd_config
ssh_config.works      ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub  sshd_config.works
ssh_host_dsa_key      ssh_host_key              supervise/
ssh_host_dsa_key.pub  ssh_host_key.pub
ssh_host_ecdsa_key    ssh_host_rsa_key

   So, rather than changing the passphrase (the '-p' option to ssh-keygen)
do I just generate a new one for all hosts, specifying Ed25519 as the
encryption algorithm? And, remove all current files in ~/.ssh/?

   Advice needed so I get it all correct and cleaned up the first time.

Rich





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