Re: Generating ssh key pairs
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:57:24PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> Dan,
>
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:15:53 -0500, Dan wrote:
>
> >In general, you want your SFTP users to send you their own
> >public keys, and you drop them into ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> That's going to be difficult, as most of my users wouldn't know a
> public key from their house key (LOL). I was hoping it would be
> simpler than that.
>
If you generate their key pairs for them, how are you going to
safely send them their private keys?
If they can't generate a keypair, they probably can't secure it
with a passphrase.
Generating a keypair is easy for Linux and Mac users, and only
slightly more complicated for Windows users. (They have the
additional step of installing something like putty.)
-dsr-
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