From: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:34:46 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: doc: Advise the user to generate PEM keys.
X-Git-Tag: v0.6.3~80
X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a7da3d96a171a3758ea1ee0e4272b8e71d90abe;hp=26c001d1abf1f92b6130cd0fbf5a52b84f9899d9

doc: Advise the user to generate PEM keys.

With openssh-7.8 the default has been changed to write OpenSSH format
private keys instead of OpenSSL's PEM format. paraslash can only read
the latter, so make sure everyone stays at PEM for now.
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diff --git a/web/manual.md b/web/manual.md
index 04c716a8..e0f5ccf1 100644
--- a/web/manual.md
+++ b/web/manual.md
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ following commands:
 Next, change to the "bar" account on client_host and generate the
 key pair with the commands
 
-	ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N '' -f $key
+	ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N '' -m PEM -f $key
 
 This generates the two files id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh.  Note
 that para_server won't accept keys shorter than 2048 bits. Moreover,