Here are the steps for generating a z/OS OpenSSH user key pair and setting it up. This is from the Co:Z SFTP User's Guide, but it applies to using z/OS OpenSSH without Co:Z SFTP as well.
https://coztoolkit.com/docs/sftp/auth.html#auth-sshkeys Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Wed, Dec 3, 2025, at 1:32 PM, Amr@Systemz wrote: > > Update the authorized_keys and known_hosts. chmod the private key On > Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 06:13:35 AM MST, Peter > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here the mainframe acts as client and linux is the server > > I did sshkeygen, where it generated two files, pub rsa I have asked the > linux administrators to save in the users directory. > > Is there anything else I need to do? > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2025, 16:37 David Frenzel, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Did you setup an SSH key pair on z/OS (in the home directory of the user > > running the job)? And have you added the public key from the previously > > generated key to the target system's authorized_keys file? > > > > An SSH key pair can be generated using ssh-keygen -t ed25519 (or -t rsa). > > It will be automatically put in the place where SSH looks for it. > > > > It is possible to also use passwords but I wouldn't recommend it. > > > > Cheers - David > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
