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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users SSH - Prompting for password Post 302085006 by izy100 on Monday 14th of August 2006 12:16:08 PM
Old 08-14-2006
rsa OR dsa encryption

Hi all,
I am trying to set a standard in my company for using sftp.
After search the web for differences btw rsa and dsa encryption algo, I couldn't really find any best practices for using sftp.

Any expert is kind enough to advice if we should use rsa OR dsa encryption?
 

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sftp-server(1M) 					  System Administration Commands					   sftp-server(1M)

NAME
sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server DESCRIPTION
sftp-server implements the server side of the SSH File Transfer Protocol as defined in the IETF draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer. sftp-server is a subsystem for sshd(1M) and must not be run directly. There are no options or config settings. To enable the sftp-server subsystem for sshd add the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server See sshd_config(4) for a description of the format and contents of that file. There is no relationship between the protocol used by sftp-server and the FTP protocol (RFC 959) provided by in.ftpd. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. FILES
/usr/lib/sftp-server ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsshdu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sftp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(1M), sshd_config(4), attributes(5) To view license terms, attribution, and copyright for OpenSSH, the default path is /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWsshdr/install/copyright. If the Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location. AUTHOR
Markus Friedl SunOS 5.10 30 Jul 2003 sftp-server(1M)
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