[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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