
Passphrase is similar to a password, except it can be a phrase with a series Must have an empty passphrase), or it may be a string of arbitrary length. The passphrase may be empty to indicate no passphrase (host keys The public key is stored in a file with the Normally this program generates the key and asks for a file in Normally each user wishing to use SSH with public keyĪuthentication runs this once to create the authentication key inĪdministrator may use this to generate host keys, as seen in

Generate and update Key Revocation Lists, and to test whether given keys Ssh-keygen is also used to generate groupsįor use in Diffie-Hellman group exchange (DH-GEX). The type of key to be generated is specified with the Ssh-keygen generates, manages and convertsĪuthentication keys for ssh(1). f allowed_signers_file -I signer_identity -n namespace -s signature_file Y match-principals -I signer_identity -f allowed_signers_file s signature_file -f allowed_signers_file

SSH-KEYGEN(1) General Commands Manual SSH-KEYGEN(1) NAME
