Issue with ssh-keygen

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Fri Feb 17 13:39:06 AEDT 2017


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 09:28:52AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> [...]
>> so yeah, ssh-keygen should have probably errored out "unsupported key type".

I've just committed this patch and a similar one to fix the usage text
in this case.  It'll be in the next release (which according to the
current plan will likely be the last one to have SSH1 client support.

Thanks for the report.

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa1
unknown key type rsa1

$ ssh-keygen -?
usage: ssh-keygen [-q] [-b bits] [-t dsa | ecdsa | ed25519 | rsa]

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