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2a55e100 | 1 | .\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.53 2002/02/16 14:53:37 stevesk Exp $ |
23c2a7a5 | 2 | .\" |
bf740959 | 3 | .\" -*- nroff -*- |
4 | .\" | |
bf740959 | 5 | .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> |
bf740959 | 6 | .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland |
7 | .\" All rights reserved | |
8 | .\" | |
bcbf86ec | 9 | .\" As far as I am concerned, the code I have written for this software |
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11 | .\" software must be clearly marked as such, and if the derived work is | |
12 | .\" incompatible with the protocol description in the RFC file, it must be | |
13 | .\" called by a name other than "ssh" or "Secure Shell". | |
14 | .\" | |
15 | .\" | |
f3c7c613 | 16 | .\" Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Markus Friedl. All rights reserved. |
17 | .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Aaron Campbell. All rights reserved. | |
18 | .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Theo de Raadt. All rights reserved. | |
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bf740959 | 39 | .\" |
40 | .Dd September 25, 1999 | |
41 | .Dt SSH-KEYGEN 1 | |
42 | .Os | |
43 | .Sh NAME | |
44 | .Nm ssh-keygen | |
5deceabb | 45 | .Nd authentication key generation, management and conversion |
bf740959 | 46 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
47 | .Nm ssh-keygen | |
fa08c86b | 48 | .Op Fl q |
bf740959 | 49 | .Op Fl b Ar bits |
2a55e100 | 50 | .Fl t Ar type |
bf740959 | 51 | .Op Fl N Ar new_passphrase |
52 | .Op Fl C Ar comment | |
7cd3766c | 53 | .Op Fl f Ar output_keyfile |
bf740959 | 54 | .Nm ssh-keygen |
55 | .Fl p | |
56 | .Op Fl P Ar old_passphrase | |
57 | .Op Fl N Ar new_passphrase | |
f095fcc7 | 58 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile |
bf740959 | 59 | .Nm ssh-keygen |
5deceabb | 60 | .Fl i |
7cd3766c | 61 | .Op Fl f Ar input_keyfile |
1d1ffb87 | 62 | .Nm ssh-keygen |
5deceabb | 63 | .Fl e |
7cd3766c | 64 | .Op Fl f Ar input_keyfile |
1d1ffb87 | 65 | .Nm ssh-keygen |
66 | .Fl y | |
7cd3766c | 67 | .Op Fl f Ar input_keyfile |
1d1ffb87 | 68 | .Nm ssh-keygen |
bf740959 | 69 | .Fl c |
70 | .Op Fl P Ar passphrase | |
71 | .Op Fl C Ar comment | |
f095fcc7 | 72 | .Op Fl f Ar keyfile |
73 | .Nm ssh-keygen | |
74 | .Fl l | |
aaf45d87 | 75 | .Op Fl f Ar input_keyfile |
76 | .Nm ssh-keygen | |
77 | .Fl B | |
7cd3766c | 78 | .Op Fl f Ar input_keyfile |
f0d6bdcf | 79 | .Nm ssh-keygen |
80 | .Fl D Ar reader | |
81 | .Nm ssh-keygen | |
82 | .Fl U Ar reader | |
83 | .Op Fl f Ar input_keyfile | |
f54651ce | 84 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
bf740959 | 85 | .Nm |
5deceabb | 86 | generates, manages and converts authentication keys for |
bf740959 | 87 | .Xr ssh 1 . |
1d1ffb87 | 88 | .Nm |
3dc93cd8 | 89 | can create RSA keys for use by SSH protocol version 1 and RSA or DSA |
90 | keys for use by SSH protocol version 2. The type of key to be generated | |
91 | is specified with the | |
fa08c86b | 92 | .Fl t |
3dc93cd8 | 93 | option. |
1d1ffb87 | 94 | .Pp |
bf740959 | 95 | Normally each user wishing to use SSH |
1d1ffb87 | 96 | with RSA or DSA authentication runs this once to create the authentication |
bf740959 | 97 | key in |
c0ecc314 | 98 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity , |
99 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa | |
1d1ffb87 | 100 | or |
c0ecc314 | 101 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa . |
1d1ffb87 | 102 | Additionally, the system administrator may use this to generate host keys, |
103 | as seen in | |
104 | .Pa /etc/rc . | |
bf740959 | 105 | .Pp |
106 | Normally this program generates the key and asks for a file in which | |
4fe2af09 | 107 | to store the private key. |
108 | The public key is stored in a file with the same name but | |
bf740959 | 109 | .Dq .pub |
4fe2af09 | 110 | appended. |
111 | The program also asks for a passphrase. | |
112 | The passphrase may be empty to indicate no passphrase | |
b5c334cc | 113 | (host keys must have an empty passphrase), or it may be a string of |
4fe2af09 | 114 | arbitrary length. |
c840d0ad | 115 | A passphrase is similar to a password, except it can be a phrase with a |
116 | series of words, punctuation, numbers, whitespace, or any string of | |
117 | characters you want. | |
118 | Good passphrases are 10-30 characters long, are | |
bf740959 | 119 | not simple sentences or otherwise easily guessable (English |
e5b71e99 | 120 | prose has only 1-2 bits of entropy per character, and provides very bad |
c840d0ad | 121 | passphrases), and contain a mix of upper and lowercase letters, |
122 | numbers, and non-alphanumeric characters. | |
4fe2af09 | 123 | The passphrase can be changed later by using the |
bf740959 | 124 | .Fl p |
125 | option. | |
126 | .Pp | |
4fe2af09 | 127 | There is no way to recover a lost passphrase. |
128 | If the passphrase is | |
91789042 | 129 | lost or forgotten, a new key must be generated and copied to the |
bf740959 | 130 | corresponding public key to other machines. |
131 | .Pp | |
5deceabb | 132 | For RSA1 keys, |
133 | there is also a comment field in the key file that is only for | |
4fe2af09 | 134 | convenience to the user to help identify the key. |
135 | The comment can tell what the key is for, or whatever is useful. | |
136 | The comment is initialized to | |
bf740959 | 137 | .Dq user@host |
138 | when the key is created, but can be changed using the | |
139 | .Fl c | |
140 | option. | |
141 | .Pp | |
1d1ffb87 | 142 | After a key is generated, instructions below detail where the keys |
143 | should be placed to be activated. | |
144 | .Pp | |
bf740959 | 145 | The options are as follows: |
146 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
147 | .It Fl b Ar bits | |
4fe2af09 | 148 | Specifies the number of bits in the key to create. |
149 | Minimum is 512 bits. | |
150 | Generally 1024 bits is considered sufficient, and key sizes | |
151 | above that no longer improve security but make things slower. | |
152 | The default is 1024 bits. | |
bf740959 | 153 | .It Fl c |
154 | Requests changing the comment in the private and public key files. | |
f564d016 | 155 | This operation is only supported for RSA1 keys. |
bf740959 | 156 | The program will prompt for the file containing the private keys, for |
cf7ff074 | 157 | the passphrase if the key has one, and for the new comment. |
5deceabb | 158 | .It Fl e |
b587c165 | 159 | This option will read a private or public OpenSSH key file and |
160 | print the key in a | |
5deceabb | 161 | .Sq SECSH Public Key File Format |
162 | to stdout. | |
163 | This option allows exporting keys for use by several commercial | |
164 | SSH implementations. | |
f0d6bdcf | 165 | .It Fl f Ar filename |
f095fcc7 | 166 | Specifies the filename of the key file. |
5deceabb | 167 | .It Fl i |
168 | This option will read an unencrypted private (or public) key file | |
169 | in SSH2-compatible format and print an OpenSSH compatible private | |
170 | (or public) key to stdout. | |
171 | .Nm | |
bcaa828e | 172 | also reads the |
5deceabb | 173 | .Sq SECSH Public Key File Format . |
174 | This option allows importing keys from several commercial | |
175 | SSH implementations. | |
f095fcc7 | 176 | .It Fl l |
f564d016 | 177 | Show fingerprint of specified public key file. |
178 | Private RSA1 keys are also supported. | |
179 | For RSA and DSA keys | |
180 | .Nm | |
181 | tries to find the matching public key file and prints its fingerprint. | |
bf740959 | 182 | .It Fl p |
183 | Requests changing the passphrase of a private key file instead of | |
4fe2af09 | 184 | creating a new private key. |
185 | The program will prompt for the file | |
bf740959 | 186 | containing the private key, for the old passphrase, and twice for the |
187 | new passphrase. | |
188 | .It Fl q | |
189 | Silence | |
190 | .Nm ssh-keygen . | |
191 | Used by | |
192 | .Pa /etc/rc | |
193 | when creating a new key. | |
5deceabb | 194 | .It Fl y |
195 | This option will read a private | |
196 | OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to stdout. | |
fa08c86b | 197 | .It Fl t Ar type |
198 | Specifies the type of the key to create. | |
199 | The possible values are | |
200 | .Dq rsa1 | |
201 | for protocol version 1 and | |
202 | .Dq rsa | |
203 | or | |
204 | .Dq dsa | |
205 | for protocol version 2. | |
aaf45d87 | 206 | .It Fl B |
207 | Show the bubblebabble digest of specified private or public key file. | |
bf740959 | 208 | .It Fl C Ar comment |
209 | Provides the new comment. | |
f0d6bdcf | 210 | .It Fl D Ar reader |
211 | Download the RSA public key stored in the smartcard in | |
212 | .Ar reader . | |
bf740959 | 213 | .It Fl N Ar new_passphrase |
214 | Provides the new passphrase. | |
215 | .It Fl P Ar passphrase | |
216 | Provides the (old) passphrase. | |
f0d6bdcf | 217 | .It Fl U Ar reader |
218 | Upload an existing RSA private key into the smartcard in | |
219 | .Ar reader . | |
bf740959 | 220 | .El |
221 | .Sh FILES | |
222 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
bf740959 | 223 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity |
c0ecc314 | 224 | Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of the user. |
4fe2af09 | 225 | This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. |
226 | It is possible to | |
bf740959 | 227 | specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be |
4fe2af09 | 228 | used to encrypt the private part of this file using 3DES. |
229 | This file is not automatically accessed by | |
bf740959 | 230 | .Nm |
231 | but it is offered as the default file for the private key. | |
8a497b11 | 232 | .Xr ssh 1 |
1d1ffb87 | 233 | will read this file when a login attempt is made. |
bf740959 | 234 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub |
c0ecc314 | 235 | Contains the protocol version 1 RSA public key for authentication. |
4fe2af09 | 236 | The contents of this file should be added to |
bf740959 | 237 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys |
238 | on all machines | |
91789042 | 239 | where the user wishes to log in using RSA authentication. |
4fe2af09 | 240 | There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret. |
1d1ffb87 | 241 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa |
c0ecc314 | 242 | Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user. |
1d1ffb87 | 243 | This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. |
244 | It is possible to | |
245 | specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be | |
246 | used to encrypt the private part of this file using 3DES. | |
247 | This file is not automatically accessed by | |
248 | .Nm | |
249 | but it is offered as the default file for the private key. | |
8a497b11 | 250 | .Xr ssh 1 |
1d1ffb87 | 251 | will read this file when a login attempt is made. |
252 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | |
c0ecc314 | 253 | Contains the protocol version 2 DSA public key for authentication. |
254 | The contents of this file should be added to | |
96a7b0cc | 255 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys |
c0ecc314 | 256 | on all machines |
91789042 | 257 | where the user wishes to log in using public key authentication. |
c0ecc314 | 258 | There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret. |
259 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa | |
260 | Contains the protocol version 2 RSA authentication identity of the user. | |
261 | This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. | |
262 | It is possible to | |
263 | specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be | |
264 | used to encrypt the private part of this file using 3DES. | |
265 | This file is not automatically accessed by | |
266 | .Nm | |
267 | but it is offered as the default file for the private key. | |
8a497b11 | 268 | .Xr ssh 1 |
c0ecc314 | 269 | will read this file when a login attempt is made. |
270 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | |
271 | Contains the protocol version 2 RSA public key for authentication. | |
1d1ffb87 | 272 | The contents of this file should be added to |
96a7b0cc | 273 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys |
1d1ffb87 | 274 | on all machines |
91789042 | 275 | where the user wishes to log in using public key authentication. |
1d1ffb87 | 276 | There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret. |
089fbbd2 | 277 | .El |
fa08c86b | 278 | .Sh AUTHORS |
5fb622e4 | 279 | OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free |
280 | ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen. | |
281 | Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, | |
282 | Theo de Raadt and Dug Song | |
283 | removed many bugs, re-added newer features and | |
284 | created OpenSSH. | |
285 | Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH | |
286 | protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. | |
bf740959 | 287 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
288 | .Xr ssh 1 , | |
289 | .Xr ssh-add 1 , | |
0c372277 | 290 | .Xr ssh-agent 1 , |
a5ef76f1 | 291 | .Xr sshd 8 |
5deceabb | 292 | .Rs |
7b518233 | 293 | .%A J. Galbraith |
294 | .%A R. Thayer | |
5deceabb | 295 | .%T "SECSH Public Key File Format" |
296 | .%N draft-ietf-secsh-publickeyfile-01.txt | |
297 | .%D March 2001 | |
298 | .%O work in progress material | |
299 | .Re |