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authorJun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-04-10 09:13:23 +0000
committerJun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-04-10 09:13:23 +0000
commit1835f75ebd61e58e4fca17d58f0e285ac5f56537 (patch)
tree772eeffe133e8b24f18c6ee4da0cef342cda876e /usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
parent271364cb9ec60fb886ea403d46cdbde95aa687fa (diff)
document id_rsa{.pub,}. markus ok
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.133
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
index a3914680e28..6808ede698c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.35 2001/03/11 22:33:23 markus Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.36 2001/04/10 09:13:21 itojun Exp $
.\"
.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\"
@@ -89,9 +89,10 @@ option allows you to create a key for use by protocol 2.0.
Normally each user wishing to use SSH
with RSA or DSA authentication runs this once to create the authentication
key in
-.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
+.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity ,
+.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
or
-.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa .
+.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa .
Additionally, the system administrator may use this to generate host keys,
as seen in
.Pa /etc/rc .
@@ -191,7 +192,7 @@ OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to stdout.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
-Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user.
+Contains the protocol version 1 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 key; that passphrase will be
@@ -202,14 +203,14 @@ but it is offered as the default file for the private key.
.Xr sshd 8
will read this file when a login attempt is made.
.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub
-Contains the public key for authentication.
+Contains the protocol version 1 RSA public key for authentication.
The contents of this file should be added to
.Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
on all machines
where you wish to log in using RSA authentication.
There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret.
.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
-Contains the DSA authentication identity of the user.
+Contains the protocol version 2 DSA 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 key; that passphrase will be
@@ -220,7 +221,25 @@ but it is offered as the default file for the private key.
.Xr sshd 8
will read this file when a login attempt is made.
.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
-Contains the public key for authentication.
+Contains the protocol version 2 DSA public key for authentication.
+The contents of this file should be added to
+.Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2
+on all machines
+where you wish to log in using public key authentication.
+There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret.
+.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa
+Contains the protocol version 2 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 key; that passphrase will be
+used to encrypt the private part of this file using 3DES.
+This file is not automatically accessed by
+.Nm
+but it is offered as the default file for the private key.
+.Xr sshd 8
+will read this file when a login attempt is made.
+.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
+Contains the protocol version 2 RSA public key for authentication.
The contents of this file should be added to
.Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2
on all machines