Re: wg(4) manpage tweaks

[Renaud Allard]

On 11/27/20 1:29 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:

It's not very clear how to fetch the pubkey. OK to add this to wg(4)?

Index: wg.4
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RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/wg.4,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -p -r1.6 wg.4
--- wg.4        24 Nov 2020 16:33:05 -0000      1.6
+++ wg.4        27 Nov 2020 12:28:32 -0000
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ interface may be configured to recognise
  .It Key
  Each peer uses its private key and corresponding public key to
  identify itself to others.
+The public key may be displayed by running
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+as root after configuring the private key.
  A peer configures a
  .Nm wg
  interface with its own private key and with the public keys of its peers.
@@ -138,9 +141,11 @@ but demonstrates two interfaces on the s
  .Bd -literal
  #!/bin/sh

  ifconfig wg1 create wgport 7111 wgkey `openssl rand -base64 32` rdomain 1
  ifconfig wg2 create wgport 7222 wgkey `openssl rand -base64 32` rdomain 2

  PUB1="`ifconfig wg1 | grep 'wgpubkey' | cut -d ' ' -f 2`"
  PUB2="`ifconfig wg2 | grep 'wgpubkey' | cut -d ' ' -f 2`"

+# create interfaces, set random private keys +# retrieve the public keys associated with the private keys

I have no powers over the OK, but I completely agree it wasn't really clear.

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