Sometimes we have “Fingerprint has already been taken” while adding our ssh key.
To fix that issue, we need to generate a new ssh key. But the problem is your existing ssh key is added to other resources so if you generate a new one, you have to replace it everywhere.
Instead of doing this, generate a new ssh key in a new file and add it wherever it is needed.
Run the following commands on the terminal to generate the SSH key:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"Then it will ask where to generate:
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/<NAME>/.ssh/id_rsa):Give the following name for the file
/home/<NAME>/.ssh/id_rsa2
And the last step is to add it to the file by the following command:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa2