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| 1 | .\" -*- nroff -*- | ||
| 2 | .\" | ||
| 3 | .\" ssh-keygen.1 | ||
| 4 | .\" | ||
| 5 | .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> | ||
| 6 | .\" | ||
| 7 | .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland | ||
| 8 | .\" All rights reserved | ||
| 9 | .\" | ||
| 10 | .\" Created: Sat Apr 22 23:55:14 1995 ylo | ||
| 11 | .\" | ||
| 12 | .\" $Id: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.19 2000/07/06 04:06:56 aaron Exp $ | ||
| 13 | .\" | ||
| 14 | .Dd September 25, 1999 | ||
| 15 | .Dt SSH-KEYGEN 1 | ||
| 16 | .Os | ||
| 17 | .Sh NAME | ||
| 18 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 19 | .Nd authentication key generation | ||
| 20 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | ||
| 21 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 22 | .Op Fl dq | ||
| 23 | .Op Fl b Ar bits | ||
| 24 | .Op Fl N Ar new_passphrase | ||
| 25 | .Op Fl C Ar comment | ||
| 26 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile | ||
| 27 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 28 | .Fl p | ||
| 29 | .Op Fl P Ar old_passphrase | ||
| 30 | .Op Fl N Ar new_passphrase | ||
| 31 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile | ||
| 32 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 33 | .Fl x | ||
| 34 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile | ||
| 35 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 36 | .Fl X | ||
| 37 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile | ||
| 38 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 39 | .Fl y | ||
| 40 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile | ||
| 41 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 42 | .Fl c | ||
| 43 | .Op Fl P Ar passphrase | ||
| 44 | .Op Fl C Ar comment | ||
| 45 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile | ||
| 46 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 47 | .Fl l | ||
| 48 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile | ||
| 49 | .Nm ssh-keygen | ||
| 50 | .Fl R | ||
| 51 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | ||
| 52 | .Nm | ||
| 53 | generates and manages authentication keys for | ||
| 54 | .Xr ssh 1 . | ||
| 55 | .Nm | ||
| 56 | defaults to generating an RSA key for use by protocols 1.3 and 1.5; | ||
| 57 | specifying the | ||
| 58 | .Fl d | ||
| 59 | flag will create a DSA key instead for use by protocol 2.0. | ||
| 60 | .Pp | ||
| 61 | Normally each user wishing to use SSH | ||
| 62 | with RSA or DSA authentication runs this once to create the authentication | ||
| 63 | key in | ||
| 64 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity | ||
| 65 | or | ||
| 66 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa . | ||
| 67 | Additionally, the system administrator may use this to generate host keys, | ||
| 68 | as seen in | ||
| 69 | .Pa /etc/rc . | ||
| 70 | .Pp | ||
| 71 | Normally this program generates the key and asks for a file in which | ||
| 72 | to store the private key. | ||
| 73 | The public key is stored in a file with the same name but | ||
| 74 | .Dq .pub | ||
| 75 | appended. | ||
| 76 | The program also asks for a passphrase. | ||
| 77 | The passphrase may be empty to indicate no passphrase | ||
| 78 | (host keys must have empty passphrase), or it may be a string of | ||
| 79 | arbitrary length. | ||
| 80 | Good passphrases are 10-30 characters long and are | ||
| 81 | not simple sentences or otherwise easily guessable (English | ||
| 82 | prose has only 1-2 bits of entropy per word, and provides very bad | ||
| 83 | passphrases). | ||
| 84 | The passphrase can be changed later by using the | ||
| 85 | .Fl p | ||
| 86 | option. | ||
| 87 | .Pp | ||
| 88 | There is no way to recover a lost passphrase. | ||
| 89 | If the passphrase is | ||
| 90 | lost or forgotten, you will have to generate a new key and copy the | ||
| 91 | corresponding public key to other machines. | ||
| 92 | .Pp | ||
| 93 | For RSA, there is also a comment field in the key file that is only for | ||
| 94 | convenience to the user to help identify the key. | ||
| 95 | The comment can tell what the key is for, or whatever is useful. | ||
| 96 | The comment is initialized to | ||
| 97 | .Dq user@host | ||
| 98 | when the key is created, but can be changed using the | ||
| 99 | .Fl c | ||
| 100 | option. | ||
| 101 | .Pp | ||
| 102 | After a key is generated, instructions below detail where the keys | ||
| 103 | should be placed to be activated. | ||
| 104 | .Pp | ||
| 105 | The options are as follows: | ||
| 106 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | ||
| 107 | .It Fl b Ar bits | ||
| 108 | Specifies the number of bits in the key to create. | ||
| 109 | Minimum is 512 bits. | ||
| 110 | Generally 1024 bits is considered sufficient, and key sizes | ||
| 111 | above that no longer improve security but make things slower. | ||
| 112 | The default is 1024 bits. | ||
| 113 | .It Fl c | ||
| 114 | Requests changing the comment in the private and public key files. | ||
| 115 | The program will prompt for the file containing the private keys, for | ||
| 116 | passphrase if the key has one, and for the new comment. | ||
| 117 | .It Fl f | ||
| 118 | Specifies the filename of the key file. | ||
| 119 | .It Fl l | ||
| 120 | Show fingerprint of specified private or public key file. | ||
| 121 | .It Fl p | ||
| 122 | Requests changing the passphrase of a private key file instead of | ||
| 123 | creating a new private key. | ||
| 124 | The program will prompt for the file | ||
| 125 | containing the private key, for the old passphrase, and twice for the | ||
| 126 | new passphrase. | ||
| 127 | .It Fl q | ||
| 128 | Silence | ||
| 129 | .Nm ssh-keygen . | ||
| 130 | Used by | ||
| 131 | .Pa /etc/rc | ||
| 132 | when creating a new key. | ||
| 133 | .It Fl C Ar comment | ||
| 134 | Provides the new comment. | ||
| 135 | .It Fl N Ar new_passphrase | ||
| 136 | Provides the new passphrase. | ||
| 137 | .It Fl P Ar passphrase | ||
| 138 | Provides the (old) passphrase. | ||
| 139 | .It Fl R | ||
| 140 | If RSA support is functional, immediately exits with code 0. If RSA | ||
| 141 | support is not functional, exits with code 1. This flag will be | ||
| 142 | removed once the RSA patent expires. | ||
| 143 | .It Fl x | ||
| 144 | This option will read a private | ||
| 145 | OpenSSH DSA format file and print a SSH2-compatible public key to stdout. | ||
| 146 | .It Fl X | ||
| 147 | This option will read a | ||
| 148 | SSH2-compatible public key file and print an OpenSSH DSA compatible public key to stdout. | ||
| 149 | .It Fl y | ||
| 150 | This option will read a private | ||
| 151 | OpenSSH DSA format file and print an OpenSSH DSA public key to stdout. | ||
| 152 | .El | ||
| 153 | .Sh FILES | ||
| 154 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | ||
| 155 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity | ||
| 156 | Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user. | ||
| 157 | This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. | ||
| 158 | It is possible to | ||
| 159 | specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be | ||
| 160 | used to encrypt the private part of this file using 3DES. | ||
| 161 | This file is not automatically accessed by | ||
| 162 | .Nm | ||
| 163 | but it is offered as the default file for the private key. | ||
| 164 | .Xr sshd 8 | ||
| 165 | will read this file when a login attempt is made. | ||
| 166 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub | ||
| 167 | Contains the public key for authentication. | ||
| 168 | The contents of this file should be added to | ||
| 169 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys | ||
| 170 | on all machines | ||
| 171 | where you wish to log in using RSA authentication. | ||
| 172 | There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret. | ||
| 173 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa | ||
| 174 | Contains the DSA authentication identity of the user. | ||
| 175 | This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. | ||
| 176 | It is possible to | ||
| 177 | specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be | ||
| 178 | used to encrypt the private part of this file using 3DES. | ||
| 179 | This file is not automatically accessed by | ||
| 180 | .Nm | ||
| 181 | but it is offered as the default file for the private key. | ||
| 182 | .Xr sshd 8 | ||
| 183 | will read this file when a login attempt is made. | ||
| 184 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ||
| 185 | Contains the public key for authentication. | ||
| 186 | The contents of this file should be added to | ||
| 187 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2 | ||
| 188 | on all machines | ||
| 189 | where you wish to log in using DSA authentication. | ||
| 190 | There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret. | ||
| 191 | .El | ||
| 192 | .Sh AUTHOR | ||
| 193 | Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> | ||
| 194 | .Pp | ||
| 195 | OpenSSH | ||
| 196 | is a derivative of the original (free) ssh 1.2.12 release, but with bugs | ||
| 197 | removed and newer features re-added. | ||
| 198 | Rapidly after the 1.2.12 release, | ||
| 199 | newer versions bore successively more restrictive licenses. | ||
| 200 | This version of OpenSSH | ||
| 201 | .Bl -bullet | ||
| 202 | .It | ||
| 203 | has all components of a restrictive nature (i.e., patents) | ||
| 204 | directly removed from the source code; any licensed or patented components | ||
| 205 | are chosen from | ||
| 206 | external libraries. | ||
| 207 | .It | ||
| 208 | has been updated to support ssh protocol 1.5. | ||
| 209 | .It | ||
| 210 | contains added support for | ||
| 211 | .Xr kerberos 8 | ||
| 212 | authentication and ticket passing. | ||
| 213 | .It | ||
| 214 | supports one-time password authentication with | ||
| 215 | .Xr skey 1 . | ||
| 216 | .El | ||
| 217 | .Sh SEE ALSO | ||
| 218 | .Xr ssh 1 , | ||
| 219 | .Xr ssh-add 1 , | ||
| 220 | .Xr ssh-agent 1 , | ||
| 221 | .Xr sshd 8 , | ||
