Issue with ssh-keygen

Kelly Dunlop kdunlop at guralp.com
Fri Feb 17 23:12:33 AEDT 2017


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:39:06PM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for confirming that I hadn't misinterpreted something.

Thanks for the fix too although as you say time is short for SSH1 support.

Kelly
> 
> $ 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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> Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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