SSH-PUBKEYMGR(1)

NAME
ssh-pubkeymgr - sets up public key authentication for users

SYNOPSIS
ssh-pubkeymgr [-k keypair name]

DESCRIPTION

ssh-pubkeymgr creates the user files needed to use public key authentication with ssh2. The first thing it does is to check for your public keys. If it doesn't find them, ssh-pubkeymgr runs ssh-keygen2 ssh-agent2 later on to store your keys in memory. After this, ssh-pubkeymgr will create your identification and authorization files if it doesn't find them in your ~/.ssh directory.

After all the files are created, ssh-pubkeymgr provides an interface that can upload your user public key to a remote host using scp2.

Using the same interface, you can download hostkeys from the desired hosts using scp2 as well.

Note: All the files ssh-pubkeymgr manipulates are located in the ~/.ssh directory.

OPTIONS

-k keypair
    Use the keypair name defined by the user instead of the default ( id_dsa_1024_a ). Note that the private key defaults to id_dsa_1024_a and the public key defaults to id_dsa_1024_a.pub. Since the identification file uses the name of the private key, this is the option used in ssh-pubkeymgr.

-h  Prints out a small usage summary.

FILES

$HOME/.ssh2/authorization
    Contains the names of the host public keys that are allowed to authenticate to this account.

$HOME/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a
    The default DSA private key for the user.

$HOME/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a.pub
    The default DSA public key for the user.

$HOME/.ssh2/identification
    Contains names of the private keys that are to be used in authentication. See ssh2(1) for more information.

AUTHORS

SSH Communications Security Oy For more information, see http://www.ssh.fi.

SEE ALSO
ssh-agent2(1), ssh-keygen2(1), ssh2(1), scp2(1), sshd2(8)