default option for ssh-keygen

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Tue Nov 13 20:11:11 EST 2001


On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:02:39PM +0900, NONAKA Akira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of my users got into trouble that he could not use rsa authentication.
> He was using 2.9 server and 2.9 client but he generated his rsa key
> without -t option by ssh-keygen, thus identity and identity.pub was created.
> ssh -1 worked for him.
> 
> IMHO, since SSH-2 is default for ssh client now,  I think "-t dsa" should be
> the default for ssh-keygen.

i think -t rsa will be the default, or there will be no default at all.



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