Questions tagged [ssh-keygen]
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Differences between "BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY" and "BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY"
I'm trying to genereate RSA key to access some git repositories in azure with ssh.
Having Ubuntu 22.04 and OpenSSL version OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022,
I generate an RSA key like this:
$ ssh-keygen -t ...
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How to generate rsa-sha2-256 keys using ssh-keygen utility?
I want to generate rsa-sha2-256 ssh key pair using ssh-keygen utility. Can you please share the command for the same?
For ssh-rsa, it's ssh-keygen -t rsa
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Alternative to ssh-copy-id on windows
I want to copy an SSH public key to a remote device on Windows. I'm not using PuTTYgen rather just OpenSSH through PowerShell. I ran
ssh-keygen -t rsa
And it gave me a public and private key in my ....
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How to convert OpenSSH ED25519 private key to the OpenSSH format that MySQL Workbench uses?
My OpenSSH ED25519 private key file has the following structure:
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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How to check version of ssh-keygen?
What command can be used in Linux to display the version of ssh-keygen? Its man page doesn't tell the version, oddly, nor does it mention any option to do it (e.g. -v or --version). Of no use is apt-...
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Suddenly, my ssh requires a password--debug1: send_pubkey_test: no mutual signature algorithm
Went to check something on my Ubuntu server:
jlouthan@siege ~/.ssh ssh metroplex.theologic.us
([email protected]) Password:
That is odd because I have ssh keys.
Troubleshooting, ...
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Why does ssh-keygen -K give me a different keyhalf everytime I invoke it?
I'm just getting started using a YubiKey to manage my ssh keypairs.
As far as I could gather from existing resources, ed25519-sk with ssh-keygen seems to be the most straightforward way to make that ...
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Is ssh-keygen -s supposed to work with ssh-agent?
We're converting our ssh host keys to certificate-signed keys. I wanted to write a script that would use ssh-keyscan to grab all the public keys, then sign them all, and then use ansible to push the ...
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Does ssh-keygen have a command to change the setting on a public key?
Does ssh-keygen have an option for setting the values like force-command, no-port-forwarding, no-agent-forwarding on a supplied key?
I am thinking of the instance, when someone sends you their public ...
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ssh-keygen -f option, with PowerShell, continues to say folder not exists despite it does
I'm using the PowerShell terminal in Windows 10.
I created a folder "new_folder" in ~/.ssh
mkdir ~/.ssh/new_folder
Then I try to run ssh-keygen with the -f option.
The documentation says &...
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Rsync to Synology NAS with public key does not work as expected
I know that this question is asked a lot, but none of the answers could help me so far. I am trying to copy files via rsync from an ubuntu server to a Synology nas without a password prompt.
I am ...
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FileZilla stopped using keys from ssh-agent on macOS
I recently set up SSH access to my web servers on my Mac by following GitHub's documentation for Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent. After that, I installed FileZilla and the ...
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Why doesn't windows 10 ssh-keygen honor the -m option?
Windows 10 command line ssh-keygen -b 2048 -mPKCS8 doesn't change the .pub file created to PKCS8 (it's always the one-liner).
I can do this to get the actual format output to the screen:
ssh-keygen -...
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With a key pair at hand, and the private key working, how can I find the "counterpart public key" on the server and compare fingerprints?
I have the fingerprint from the remote host which is said to be its public key fingerprint according to What is a SSH key fingerprint and how is it generated?.
Asking for the host fingerprint:
ssh-...
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Where does the command "ssh-keygen -A" generate host keys?
I tried to start sshd and saw an error message as follow.
# sshd: no hostkeys available --exiting
And did some search and found I need to run the command "ssh-keygen -A" to generate default ...
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Use ssh-keygen on windows machine and use it on linux machine
We have a scenario when we need to generate ssh key with ssh-keygen on a windows machine and copy it to linux instance:
echo -e 'y\n' | ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /tmp/temp -N '' >/dev/null 2>&1
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