From 7a7da3d96a171a3758ea1ee0e4272b8e71d90abe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andre Noll Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:34:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] 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. --- web/manual.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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, -- 2.39.2