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Question
When requesting SSH access to a remote system, a user accidentally emailed the id_rsa key to the administrator. Which of the following should the user do NEXT?
Options
- ARun the ssh-add command to add the remote system to known_hosts.
- BAsk the administrator to run chmod 600 id_rsa on the remote system.
- CDelete id_rsa key file and send the id_rsa.pub key file instead.
- DStop using that key and run ssh-keygen to generate a new key pair.
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Topics
#SSH#Key management#Security best practices#Private key compromise