default option for ssh-keygen

[Tim McGarry]

can't we just have ssh-keygen -t all as an option?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Friedl" <markus at openbsd.org>
To: "NONAKA Akira" <anonaka at miraclelinux.com>
Cc: <openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: default option for ssh-keygen


> 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.
>