On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Warren Young wrote: > On 11/29/2011 2:49 PM, Andrew Erskine wrote: >> >> ssh-keygen -t dsa > > "-t [keytype]" is a default flag these days, and it defaults to RSA, not > DSA. Unless you know for a fact you need DSA keys for some odd reason, > leave this flag off and accept the default. > > (ssh itself doesn't care what kind of key you use, as long as both ends have > support for the key type you want to use. Since every ssh implementation > I've used since *forever* supports both RSA and DSA, the only way I can see > why you'd want to use DSA is if you had some weird third-party tool that > only understood DSA keys.) > >> Accept the default >> key location, C:\Documents and Settings\nhuser\.ssh\id_dsa, > > Why would that be the default location, if you are using Cygwin tools? > Shouldn't it be something like c:\cygwin\home\nhuser\.ssh\...? You can > change your HOME to anything you like, but that's not the default with > Cygwin.
That *is* the default with Cygwin if HOME, or HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH, is set in the Windows environment. Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
