sdm-autokeys(8)

sdm-autokeys8

Generates keys to be used with ssh autologin

Usage

sdm-autokeys <filename> <username> [<key_type>]

Overview

generates a ssh(1) key using ssh-keygen(1) for use with autologin the specified <username>. the generated key is copied into /home/<username>/.ssh/authorized_keys

if not specified, <key_type> defaults to rsa. this determines what type of key will be passed to ssh-keygen(1).

Files

~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–6.0

Bugs

assumes location of user home directories and provides no mechanism to change it.

probably others.

Author

Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>

From sdm 0.4.1-4 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.