Bug 1064

Summary:

Patch: list valid key types in error message

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

Ed Avis <ed>

Component:

ssh-keygen

Assignee:

Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

Severity:

enhancement

Keywords:

needs-release-note

Priority:

Version:

4.1p1

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

1047

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch against openssh-4.1p1 to improve ssh-keygen -t error message	none
Default to generating a RSA key	none

Description Ed Avis 2005-07-31 21:39:42 AEST

This is a patch to improve the error message from ssh-keygen when you give an
unknown key type.  The new message looks like

% ssh-keygen -t foo
unknown key type foo
known key types are: rsa1, rsa, dsa, ssh-rsa, ssh-dss

Comment 1 Ed Avis 2005-07-31 21:41:26 AEST

Created attachment 944 [details]
Patch against openssh-4.1p1 to improve ssh-keygen -t error message

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2005-10-30 12:26:09 AEDT

Created attachment 1017 [details]
Default to generating a RSA key

I think we are better off just generating a RSA2 key if not key type is specified, like this.

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2005-10-30 12:31:00 AEDT

we have a patch, so put it on the radar.

Comment 4 Damien Miller 2005-10-31 22:12:19 AEDT

patch applied - we now generate a RSA SSH protocol 2 key by default. If people need anything else, then they should read the manpage.

Comment 5 Darren Tucker 2006-10-07 11:41:19 AEST

Change all RESOLVED bug to CLOSED with the exception of the ones fixed post-4.4.