[PATCH] remove /etc/rc references from ssh-keygen.1
Matthew Vernon
matthew at debian.org
Fri Sep 28 05:37:36 EST 2001
Hi,
Some systems (sysvinit-using ones, at least, such as linux) do not
have /etc/rc, so the references to it in ssh-keygen.1 are not very
helpful. Here's a quick patch to remove those references.
Cheers,
Matthew
--- ssh-keygen.1.orig Thu Sep 27 20:31:48 2001
+++ ssh-keygen.1 Thu Sep 27 20:34:34 2001
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@
or
.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa .
Additionally, the system administrator may use this to generate host
keys,
-as seen in
-.Pa /etc/rc .
+as seen in initialization scripts on some systems.
.Pp
Normally this program generates the key and asks for a file in which
to store the private key.
@@ -178,9 +177,7 @@
.It Fl q
Silence
.Nm ssh-keygen .
-Used by
-.Pa /etc/rc
-when creating a new key.
+Scripts that create keys often use this option.
.It Fl y
This option will read a private
OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to stdout.
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