Hi everyone,
i wanted to generate ssh keys so that i can include the public key in the remote sever, so that for subsequent logins, i can do away with the keying in of the password. I consulted the man ssh-keygen man pages.
Code:
"..Normally each user wishing to use SSH with RSA or DSA authentication runs
this once to create the authentication key in $HOME/.ssh/identity,
$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa or $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa..."
"..-t type
Specifies the type of the key to create. The possible values are
``rsa1'' for protocol version 1 and ``rsa'' or ``dsa'' for proto-
col version 2."
I have the following questions.
1.How are the identity, id_dsa and id_rsa files generated? Does it mean that if i run ssh-keygen -t rsa1 , the id_rsa file is generated? If yes, then what is the value to specify if i want to generate the identity file?
Am i correct to assume the following:
if i supply rsa1 as the value for option -t, identity and identity.pub are generated?
if i supply rsa as the value for option -t, id_rsa and id_rsa.pub are generated?
if i supply dsa as the value for option -t, id_dsa and id_dsa.pub are generated?
