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From: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
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Subject: Re: SSH and connection automation
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:06:00PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington said:
> | 
> | > debug: Bad key file /home/wash/.ssh/identity.
> | 
> | I really don't like this line.
> | 
> | Do you get something similar to this ?
> | 
> | [ceri@cartman ceri]$ head -1 /home/ceri/.ssh/identity
> | SSH PRIVATE KEY FILE FORMAT 1.1
> | [ceri@cartman ceri]$
> | 
> | If not, I suggest you generate a new keypair.
> 
> This is what I get:
> 
> wash:~$ head -1 /home/wash/.ssh/identity
> -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> 
> How do I generate my keys? I've even tried the one below:
> 
>  ssh-keygen -d -b 2048 -N some_pass_phrase
> 
> ..and I get 
> 
> wash:~$ head -1 /home/wash/.ssh/identity2
> -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> 
> Any more clues??

Yup - that's a DSA key, and therefore should be in $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa

If ssh-keygen is putting it in $HOME/.ssh/identity then that's a bug.

Ceri

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