Thanks all for the prompt responses... The url and the advice helped immensely,Stephen Andrew <Andrew.Stephen@nzpost.co.nz> writes:Mike Dresser wrote:You don't mention whether the previous admin is still withyou, but if not, you'll want to remove his RSA keys from the
server, or else you can change your root password all you want,
and he'll still be able to connect, assuming he can get to the
machine via your network/internet.Mike has an exceptionally pertinant point here.
Right now - even before you start trying to load your own RSA key
in, log into all machines running SSH and remove the previous admins
key from ~root/.ssh/authorized_keys;
Be paranoid. Remove the ~root/.shh/autohorized_keys from all boxen
(you might want to move it out of the way till you're set up though)
and start from scratch. As the admin you want to know who can get in
as root on your machines. Besides script kiddies of course :-)
There was a good mini HOWTO kind of posting on debian-user a while
back that got me started without much trouble. The original is at:
http://home.netcom.com/~kmself/Linux/FAQs/sshrsakey.html
Hope this helps,
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