{"id":1435,"date":"2016-09-08T23:38:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2016-09-08T23:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:41:06","slug":"how-to-export-private-ssh-key-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-export-private-ssh-key-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How To export private SSH key on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

All that needs to be done is the “id_rsa” key needs to be copied to the “new” host.\u00a0 You can do this with SCP or sftp.<\/p>\n

Example with SCP<\/p>\n

The following examples are showing how to export a RSA private key, if your using DSA, then replace id_rsa with id_dsa.<\/p>\n

Copy private key from remote server to local machine for the local user<\/p>\n

scp root@192.168.1.1:~\/.ssh\/id_rsa ~\/.ssh\/<\/pre>\n
Copy private key from localhost to remote host.\u00a0 This command copies the local users private key to the root user @ 192.168.1.1<\/p>\n
scp ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa root@192.168.1.1:~\/.ssh\/<\/pre>\n
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