On 14/04/2008, at 18.48, David Masover wrote:
> I know that various ssh utilities can generate a public key from a
> private one -- I don't know the specifics, but I know that:
>
> ssh-add /some/private/key
> ssh-copy-id [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The fact that this works, even if I don't currently have a public
> key file available, proves that the ssh private key format, at
> least, contains the information necessary to generate a public key.
> Therefore, I would think that a quick fix might be to find out how
> ssh does that, and simply generate a public key when needed.
From the man-page of ssh-keygen of OpenSSH:
-y This option will read a private OpenSSH format file and
print
an OpenSSH public key to stdout.
You will need to supply the private key password to load it.
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Cheers,
- Jacob Atzen
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