Re: Need a tutorial

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Need a tutorial
Date	2016-09-22 13:20 +0200
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On Thursday 22 September 2016 03:44:28 Lars Noodén wrote:

> On 09/21/2016 11:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 September 2016 10:23:09 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >> man ssh-keygen
> >> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/SshKeys
> >
> > I knew there was something about generating keys, but not the sticky
> > details.
>
> If you have multiple servers or multiple remote accounts, you will end
> up with at least one key pair per account+server.  So you will also
> need a way to keep track of them.  One way it to make use of the -C
> and -f options to add a comment inside the key and to name the key
> files to something mnemonic.
>
Now that would be very handy.
> As far as the key choices go, DSA is considered deprecated, at least
> in the more recent versions:
>
> 	"Support for ssh-dss, ssh-dss-cert-* host and user keys
> 	will be run-time disabled by default"
> 	 - http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-6.9
>
> So that leaves RSA if you have old versions of the OpenSSH server to
> deal with.  Probably 2048 bits or more is good for a while. 
> Otherwise, consider Ed25519.
>
This I am not familiar with. Is there an explanatory url?

> Regards,
> /Lars

Thanks Lars.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-21 16:20 +0200
  Re: Need a tutorial Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-21 16:30 +0200
    Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-21 22:40 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 09:50 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-22 10:50 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-22 13:20 +0200
          Re: Need a tutorial <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-22 14:10 +0200
            Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-22 18:00 +0200
              Re: Need a tutorial Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 18:10 +0200
                Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-22 18:40 +0200
          Re: Need a tutorial Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 14:10 +0200
            Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-22 18:20 +0200
              Re: Need a tutorial davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-09-23 05:10 +0200
    Re: Need a tutorial Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-09-22 15:50 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-22 18:20 +0200
  Re: Need a tutorial <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-21 18:30 +0200
    Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-21 22:50 +0200
    Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-22 17:40 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-22 17:50 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-22 18:20 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-22 18:10 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-09-22 18:20 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-22 18:20 +0200
          Re: Need a tutorial "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-09-22 18:30 +0200
            Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-22 20:10 +0200
            Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <stebe@mailbox.org> - 2016-09-22 20:30 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-22 19:00 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-22 19:40 +0200
        sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created  with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-23 14:40 +0200
          Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-23 15:00 +0200
            Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being  created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-23 16:20 +0200
              Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being  created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-23 16:20 +0200
            Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being  created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-23 22:30 +0200
          RESOLVED Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account  being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-23 15:10 +0200
            Re: RESOLVED Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account  being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-23 16:00 +0200
          Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being  created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-23 15:20 +0200
            Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being  created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-23 18:50 +0200
              Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being  created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-24 16:10 +0200
  Re: Need a tutorial Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2016-09-22 17:30 +0200
    Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-22 18:40 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-22 19:00 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2016-09-22 20:10 +0200
          Re: Need a tutorial "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-09-22 21:00 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 19:10 +0200
      Re: Need a tutorial Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2016-09-22 20:20 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-22 20:40 +0200
          Re: Need a tutorial Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2016-09-22 20:50 +0200
        Re: Need a tutorial Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-23 04:30 +0200
          Re: Need a tutorial Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2016-09-23 09:20 +0200

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