Extending expiration date and SSH

[Peter Lebbing]

On 18/09/17 12:38, Marko Božiković wrote:
> Will that change the SSH public key (as it is exported using ssh-add -L for
> adding to .ssh/authorized_keys)?

No, if it is a regular SSH key, it will not change by changing the
expiration date.

> I'm looking for a best practice approach to avoid locking myself out of my
> machines :)

Back up your .gnupg dir, and if something goes wrong, put it back from
backup. Always good advice.

HTH,

Peter.

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