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|Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 09:16:16 -0500
|From: "Mark E. Drummond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: gen a host key?
|I am looking at ssh-keygen and asking myself, ok, how the heck do I use
|it to create a new host key? I've done this before, but, my bad, I did
|not write down how I did it ... a thousand lashings ...
|___________________________________________________
|Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
Quoting from the ssh Makefile:
install_prefix =
HOST_KEY_FILE = $(etcdir)/ssh_host_key
etcdir = /etc
# Creates /etc/ssh_host_key
generate-host-key:
-@if test -f $(install_prefix)$(HOST_KEY_FILE); \
then echo "You already have a host key in
$(install_prefix)$(HOST_KEY_FILE)."; \
else \
umask 022; echo "Generating 1024 bit host key."; \
./ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f $(install_prefix)$(HOST_KEY_FILE) -N ''; \
That is,
ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N ''
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