How to Change Password of SSH key

It's possible to change the password of your current ssh key if you have the current password or it is not currently password protected. You can use the command:

ssh-keygen -p

From the man pages -

Requests changing the passphrase of a private key file instead of
creating a new private key.  The program will prompt for the file
containing the private key, for the old passphrase, and twice for
the new passphrase.

https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1#p

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