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Article #31Re: ssh2 dsa key
From: entr0py
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:00
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> Assuming you're referring to OpenSSH 2.1.x, then see man ssh-keygen. You > need to specify the -d option to build DSA keys. I don't know if your > RPM was supposed to build the server keys for you - it did when I > installed SSH 1.2 from a Caldera RPM, but I built OpenSSH from a > tarball. IIRC, the "make host-keys" procedure for the tarball doesn't > build DSA keys either and I had to do it manually with ssh-keygen. Thanks, i had tried that but it looked like it was only for making user keys. Anyway i told it to dump the key to /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key instead of /root/.ssh/whatever and it seems to have worked fine (I can connect remotely using ssh2) Another question tho - what are the pro's and con's of using a passphrase for these server keys? ent.
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