On 5 August 2012 12:09, Wayne Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/08/12 12:07, Colin Law wrote: >> On 5 August 2012 12:04, Wayne Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi gang, >>> >>> Anybody know how to "extract" a ssh public key from ubuntu 12.04? >> Not sure what you mean by this. Can you be more explicit? >> >> Colin >> > Sure, > > Lauchpad is asking for my ssh public key.
I don't know why launchpad wants the key but if you want to generate a public key for use with ssh for example then you can use ssh-keygen. I use ssh-keygen -t rsa Just hit enter when asked, then the key appears in .ssh/id_rsa which is the private key and id_rsa_pub which is the public. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
