Bug 2879

Summary:

ssh-keygen missing documentation for "-Z" flag

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

Scott <scott_fields>

Component:

Documentation

Assignee:

Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

Severity:

enhancement

CC:

dtucker

Priority:

Version:

7.7p1

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

3217

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Document ssh-keygen -Z and provide better error on incorrect arg.	none
Document ssh-keygen -Z and provide better error on incorrect arg.	none

Description Scott 2018-06-30 08:37:06 AEST

ssh-keygen has supported the -Z flag since 1.237 of ssh-keygen.c.

However, and man page has never been updated to include the specifics of the operation of this flag.

Please update the man page for ssh-keygen to include the specifics for the "-Z" option, which allows you to specify the encryption cipher for a private key. Based on the code, this option only applies if you are using the new private key format, either currently used if you specify the -o flag when creating/updating a key, or specify ED25519 for the key type.

Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2020-11-27 14:07:47 AEDT

Created attachment 3458 [details]
Document ssh-keygen -Z and provide better error on incorrect arg.

Comment 2 Darren Tucker 2020-11-27 14:38:07 AEDT

Created attachment 3459 [details]
Document ssh-keygen -Z and provide better error on incorrect arg.

fix a couple of "z" that should have been "Z"

Comment 3 Darren Tucker 2020-11-27 21:18:42 AEDT

The patch has been applied and will be in the 8.5 release.  Thanks for the report.

Comment 4 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 15:00:58 AEST

closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release