brent timothy saner via plug on 24 Mar 2021 14:42:27 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Web Ass Pfirewall


On 3/24/21 17:20, Fred Stluka via plug wrote:
> On 3/24/21 4:50 PM, Michael Lazin via plug wrote:
>> github has very good documentation on generating ssh key pairs. 
> 
> Forget documentation.  Automate it!
> 
> I wrote a script in 2010 to create and publish SSH keys.  It does
> all the steps for you.
> - Adds the default or specified public RSA SSH key to the
>    authorized_keys file of the specified user@host, so that the
>    user can login via ssh w/o specifying a password
> - Offers to create the RSA key file pair if it doesn't already exist
> - Offers to create the RSA public key from the specified RSA
>    private key if it doesn't already exist.
> - Sets all the required file permissions on all the files and folders
> 
> See:
>       - http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm#script_authorize_ssh_key
> 
> Enjoy!
> --Fred


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