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ssh-keygen authentication key generation, management and conversion

Generate an RSA SSH keypair with a 4096 bit private key

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "RSA 4096 bit Keys"

Generate an DSA SSH keypair with a 2048 bit private key

ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 -C "DSA 1024 bit Keys"

Generate an ECDSA SSH keypair with a 521 bit private key

ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521 -C "ECDSA 521 bit Keys"

Generate an ed25519 SSH keypair- this is a new algorithm added in OpenSSH.

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

Extracting the public key from an RSA keypair

openssl rsa -pubout -in private_key.pem -out public_key.pem

Extracting the public key from an DSA keypair

openssl dsa -pubout -in private_key.pem -out public_key.pem

Copy the public key to the server
The ssh-copy-id command
ssh-copy-id user@hostname copies the public key of your default identity (use -i identity_file for other identities) to the remote host

SSH Running on different port

ssh-copy-id -i "user@hostname -p2222"

-i switch defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, if you want another key, put the path of the key after

Converting keys between openssl and openssh

• Extract Public key from the certificate

    openssl x509 -in cert.pem -noout -pubkey >pubkey.pem
    cat pubkey.pem
    -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
    MIICIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAg8AMIICCgKCAgEA0TqlveKKlc2MFvEmuXJi
    LGBsY1t4ML4uiRADGSZlnc+7Ugv3h+MCjkkwOKiOdsNo8k4KSBIG5GcQfKYOOd17
    AJvqCL6cGQbaLuqv0a64jeDm8oO8/xN/IM0oKw7rMr/2oAJOgIsfeXPkRxWWic9A
    VIS++H5Qi2r7bUFX+cqFsyUCAwEAAQ==
    -----END PUBLIC KEY-----
  

• Use the following command to convert it to authorized_keys entry

    $ ssh-keygen -i -m PKCS8 -f pubkey.pem
    ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAACAQDROqW94oqVzYwW8Sa5cmIsYGxjW3gwvi6JEAMZJmWdz7tSC/eH4wKOSTA4qI52w2jyTgpIEgbkZxB8pg453XvbngfjPMhhAV0XSy3s1wUFGPWlumctOvaowxXf60y7h5zsDTSTHzO5d2agAk6Aix95c+RHFZaJz0BUhL74flCLavttQVf5yoWzJQ==