Transferring a passphrase protected private SSH key to another machine

Question

I am trying to use the same SSH keys on a new machine. This was my original setup:

~/.ssh/mykey 

~/.ssh has 700 permission
~/.ssh/mykey has 600 permission

I used ssh -i to specify the key used to log into a server.

I copied the paths, contents, and permissions of mykey to my new laptop.

Unfortunately, the passphrase I used old machine is not working for my new laptop. Am I missing a step?

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score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '20 at 18:32

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It looks like it is better to just create a new SSH key.

answered May 16 '20 at 18:32

J W

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