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Password, except it can be a phrase with a series of words, Passphrase (host keys must have an empty passphrase), or it may beĪ string of arbitrary length. The passphrase may be empty to indicate no Normally this program generates the key and asks for a file in ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk or ~/.ssh/id_rsa.Īdditionally, the system administrator may use this to generate Normally each user wishing to use SSH with public keyĪuthentication runs this once to create the authentication key in See the KEY REVOCATION LISTS section for details. Revocation Lists, and to test whether given keys have been revokedīy one.
Ssh keygen options update#
See the MODULI GENERATION sectionįinally, ssh-keygen can be used to generate and update Key Ssh-keygen is also used to generate groups for use in Diffie. If invoked without any arguments, ssh-keygen will generate an RSA

The type of key to be generated is specified with the -t option. ssh-keygen can create keys for use by SSH protocol version

ssh-keygen -Y verify -f allowed_signers_file -I signer_identity -n namespace -s signature_fileĭESCRIPTION top ssh-keygen generates, manages and converts authentication keys for ssh-keygen -Y find-principals -s signature_file -f allowed_signers_file ssh-keygen -Y check-novalidate -n namespace -s signature_file ssh-keygen -Y sign -f key_file -n namespace file. Ssh-keygen -M generate output_file ssh-keygen -M screen output_file ssh-keygen -I certificate_identity -s ca_key Ssh-keygen -D pkcs11 ssh-keygen -F hostname
Ssh keygen options manual#
SSH-KEYGEN(1) BSD General Commands Manual SSH-KEYGEN(1) NAME top ssh-keygen - OpenSSH authentication key utility
