Ssh Keygen Rsa Command

Name ssh-keygen - authentication key generation, management and conversion Synopsis ssh-keygen [- q ] [- b bits ] - t type [- N new_passphrase ] [- C comment ] [- f output_keyfile ] ssh-keygen - p [- P old_passphrase ] [- N new_passphrase ] [- f keyfile ] ssh-keygen - i [- f input_keyfile ] ssh-keygen - e [- f input_keyfile ] ssh-keygen - y [- f input_keyfile ] ssh-keygen - c [- P passphrase ] [- C comment ] [- f keyfile ] ssh-keygen - l [- f input_keyfile ] ssh-keygen - B [- f input_keyfile ] ssh-keygen - D reader ssh-keygen - U reader [- f input_keyfile ]. Description ssh-keygen generates, manages and converts authentication keys for ssh(1). Ssh-keygen can create RSA keys for use by SSH protocol version 1 and RSA or DSA keys for use by SSH protocol version 2. The type of key to be generated is specified with the - t option. Normally each user wishing to use SSH with RSA or DSA authentication runs this once to create the authentication key in $HOME/.ssh/identity $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa or $HOME/.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. How To Unlock Sprint Iphone 5s In India more. The public key is stored in a file with the same name but ``.pub' appended.