Bug 1973 - Key generation needs user assistance when destination file already exists
Summary: Key generation needs user assistance when destination file already exists
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ssh-keygen (show other bugs)
Version: 5.9p1
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Assignee: Oliver Ford
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Reported: 2012-01-20 01:57 AEDT by Aleksey Morarash
Modified: 2020-03-08 03:33 AEDT (History)
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Description Aleksey Morarash 2012-01-20 01:57:39 AEDT 
Compiled from source openssh-5.9p1.

When generating new key pair with ssh-keygen it will ask something like

> <filename> already exists.
> Overwrite (y/n)? 

regardless of terminal existance. Worse, there is no option to disable such behaviour.

To force file rewrite I use 'echo y' piped to ssh-keygen, but it still outputs the question.

I expected '-q' option (Silence ssh-keygen) will be able to skip such interactions.
Comment 1 Oliver Ford 2020-03-03 02:26:07 AEDT 
Added pr to change this behavior for openssh-portable here: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/175