[Gllug] Is there antyway I can reset my SSH passphrase

James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 10:14:55 UTC 2010


On 25 August 2010 22:16, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 25 August 2010 20:03, Adrian McMenamin
> <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
>> Some time ago - years ago maybe - I set a passphrase for my SSH key(s)
>> on this machine. I simply cannot remember what it was and none of the
>> obvious ones work.
>>
>> Is there any way to fix this that won't take the next year of my life :)
>
> Phone  01242 221491 and ask for your passphrase.
> They have it already.
>
> www.gchq.gov.uk

You can try, but I don't think they will give that information out
over the phone. ;-)
Joking aside, the easiest way to do this is to create a new ssh key
and re-distribute the new public key and delete the old one.
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