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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:23:13 -0700
From:      Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us>
To:        Michael Vince <pvince@bigpond.net.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh-keygen version (Re: scp/sftp large file transfers always fail)
Message-ID:  <20010729082313.B43135@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <20010728223714.A21366@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:37:14PM -0400
References:  <00f301c11759$b97c3de0$2201a8c0@purple> <20010728094847.D17672@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> <20010728163208.A1413@moo.holy.cow> <20010728145624.A39952@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> <20010728223714.A21366@moo.holy.cow>

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That's what I get for not paying attention to what system I am on. I
use MacOS X to connect to my FreeBSD system. The Mac has ssh 2.9 and
the ssh-keygen -t. The FreeBSD system has 2.3.0 and the ssh-keygen -d
option. Sorry to all for the confusion.

The upshot is that you can make a DSA key with either one.

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:37:14PM -0400, parv wrote:
> on Jul 28 21:01, i got this from Fred...
> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:32:08PM -0400, parv wrote:
> > > on Jul 28 15:58, i got this from Fred...
> > > > 
> > > > It does. Used the -t dsa option of ssh-keygen. Add your new dsa key to
> > > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on the remote systems you wish to connect
> > > > with.
> > > 
> > > either i have different version of ssh(-keygen), or one would get an
> > > error if "-t" option is used  w/ ssh-keygen; to generate dsa keys, i 
> > > have to use "-d" as in...
> > > 
> > > # ssh-keygen -d
> > > 
> > > ...i also read about "-t" option in one of the articles on ibm 
> > > developWorks, link is posted on rootprompt.org. my question: which 
> > > version of ssh-keygen has the "-t" option? 
> > 
> > ssh-keygen -t is in my openssh 2.3.0
> 
> are you sure that's not 2.9? my version is 2.3.0, too, but doesn't
> support -t option; ssh -V gives:
> 
> SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0 green@FreeBSD.org 20010321, \ 
> protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
> Compiled with SSL (0x0090601f).
> 
> i went thru' the source (/source/src/crypto/openssh/ssh-keygen.c),
> cvsup'd on jul 17 2001, and didn't find -t option; and a visit to...
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/crypto/openssh/ssh-keygen.c
> 
> ...confirms that 2.9 version has both the -t & -d options.
> 
> 
> while we are on the topic, the commit log says that revision 1.1.1.7 
> happened more than 2 months ago, then why do i have the 1.1.1.1.2.3
> version when i cvsup'd less than a month ago? the cvsup servers were
> cvsup2 and cvsup4. 
> 
> ...seeking enlightenment...

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