Re: Need a tutorial
On Thursday 22 September 2016 03:44:28 Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 09/21/2016 11:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 September 2016 10:23:09 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >> man ssh-keygen
> >> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/SshKeys
> >
> > I knew there was something about generating keys, but not the sticky
> > details.
>
> If you have multiple servers or multiple remote accounts, you will end
> up with at least one key pair per account+server. So you will also
> need a way to keep track of them. One way it to make use of the -C
> and -f options to add a comment inside the key and to name the key
> files to something mnemonic.
>
Now that would be very handy.
> As far as the key choices go, DSA is considered deprecated, at least
> in the more recent versions:
>
> "Support for ssh-dss, ssh-dss-cert-* host and user keys
> will be run-time disabled by default"
> - http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-6.9
>
> So that leaves RSA if you have old versions of the OpenSSH server to
> deal with. Probably 2048 bits or more is good for a while.
> Otherwise, consider Ed25519.
>
This I am not familiar with. Is there an explanatory url?
> Regards,
> /Lars
Thanks Lars.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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