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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-26 07:43:00 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-26 07:43:00 +0000 |
commit | f74e883352a52dd3ed454627dc159aa65f98d7f3 (patch) | |
tree | ef77b7637e7135f0f61cad9ae9923215ed60066b /ssh-keygen.0 | |
parent | Adding debian version 1:9.7p1-7. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 1:9.8p1.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh-keygen.0')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/ssh-keygen.0 b/ssh-keygen.0 index b0c22f7..a731a7f 100644 --- a/ssh-keygen.0 +++ b/ssh-keygen.0 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ NAME SYNOPSIS ssh-keygen [-q] [-a rounds] [-b bits] [-C comment] [-f output_keyfile] [-m format] [-N new_passphrase] [-O option] - [-t dsa | ecdsa | ecdsa-sk | ed25519 | ed25519-sk | rsa] + [-t ecdsa | ecdsa-sk | ed25519 | ed25519-sk | rsa] [-w provider] [-Z cipher] ssh-keygen -p [-a rounds] [-f keyfile] [-m format] [-N new_passphrase] [-P old_passphrase] [-Z cipher] @@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ DESCRIPTION KEY REVOCATION LISTS section for details. Normally each user wishing to use SSH with public key authentication runs - this once to create the authentication key in ~/.ssh/id_dsa, - ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa, ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, - ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk or ~/.ssh/id_rsa. Additionally, the system - administrator may use this to generate host keys, as seen in /etc/rc. + this once to create the authentication key in ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa, + ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk or + ~/.ssh/id_rsa. Additionally, the system administrator may use this to + generate host keys, as seen in /etc/rc. Normally this program generates the key and asks for a file in which to store the private key. The public key is stored in a file with the same @@ -117,8 +117,7 @@ DESCRIPTION -b bits Specifies the number of bits in the key to create. For RSA keys, the minimum size is 1024 bits and the default is 3072 bits. - Generally, 3072 bits is considered sufficient. DSA keys must be - exactly 1024 bits as specified by FIPS 186-2. For ECDSA keys, + Generally, 3072 bits is considered sufficient. For ECDSA keys, the -b flag determines the key length by selecting from one of three elliptic curve sizes: 256, 384 or 521 bits. Attempting to use bit lengths other than these three values for ECDSA keys will @@ -201,9 +200,9 @@ DESCRIPTION -L Prints the contents of one or more certificates. - -l Show fingerprint of specified public key file. For RSA and DSA - keys ssh-keygen tries to find the matching public key file and - prints its fingerprint. If combined with -v, a visual ASCII art + -l Show fingerprint of specified public key file. ssh-keygen will + try to find the matching public key file and prints its + fingerprint. If combined with -v, a visual ASCII art representation of the key is supplied with the fingerprint. -M generate @@ -318,9 +317,9 @@ DESCRIPTION file used to revoke certificates directly by key ID or serial number. See the KEY REVOCATION LISTS section for details. - -t dsa | ecdsa | ecdsa-sk | ed25519 | ed25519-sk | rsa + -t ecdsa | ecdsa-sk | ed25519 | ed25519-sk | rsa Specifies the type of key to create. The possible values are - M-bM-^@M-^\dsaM-bM-^@M-^], M-bM-^@M-^\ecdsaM-bM-^@M-^], M-bM-^@M-^\ecdsa-skM-bM-^@M-^], M-bM-^@M-^\ed25519M-bM-^@M-^], M-bM-^@M-^\ed25519-skM-bM-^@M-^], or M-bM-^@M-^\rsaM-bM-^@M-^]. + M-bM-^@M-^\ecdsaM-bM-^@M-^], M-bM-^@M-^\ecdsa-skM-bM-^@M-^], M-bM-^@M-^\ed25519M-bM-^@M-^], M-bM-^@M-^\ed25519-skM-bM-^@M-^], or M-bM-^@M-^\rsaM-bM-^@M-^]. This flag may also be used to specify the desired signature type when signing certificates using an RSA CA key. The available RSA @@ -862,13 +861,12 @@ ENVIRONMENT the built-in USB HID support. FILES - ~/.ssh/id_dsa ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk ~/.ssh/id_rsa - Contains the DSA, ECDSA, authenticator-hosted ECDSA, Ed25519, + Contains the ECDSA, authenticator-hosted ECDSA, Ed25519, authenticator-hosted Ed25519 or RSA authentication identity of the user. This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. It is possible to specify a passphrase when generating the @@ -878,13 +876,12 @@ FILES the private key. ssh(1) will read this file when a login attempt is made. - ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk.pub ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk.pub ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub - Contains the DSA, ECDSA, authenticator-hosted ECDSA, Ed25519, + Contains the ECDSA, authenticator-hosted ECDSA, Ed25519, authenticator-hosted Ed25519 or RSA public key for authentication. The contents of this file should be added to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on all machines where the user wishes to @@ -907,4 +904,4 @@ AUTHORS created OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. -OpenBSD 7.5 September 4, 2023 OpenBSD 7.5 +OpenBSD 7.5 June 17, 2024 OpenBSD 7.5 |