Today I deleted my main SSH key

An urgent need: production - quick!
I was so close. Remote - was

Supposed to be a remote server.
Turned out to be my home computer.

When the tool [1] asked me to overwrite
id_rsa, i thought that might

Have been a mistake, to find it there.
It must be gone! - I so declared.

And I was sure - a moment ago
I was accessing a new remote!

After the process, I found myself
With a new key, and one key less.

The main key is gone, and now I am
Restoring access to a bunch of servers.

No need to rush. You can check twice.
Version control your keys, perhaps.

:)


  1. ssk-keygen ↩︎