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Re: Generating ssh key pairs



On 11/01/16 21:57, 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.
> 
I'm not about to do it for you, but I would think that it would be
fairly straightforward to write a minimal script for them to generate a
key pair, and install the public key appropriately on the server.

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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
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