On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:57:24PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > Dan, > > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:15:53 -0500, Dan wrote: > > >In general, you want your SFTP users to send you their own > >public keys, and you drop them into ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys > > That's going to be difficult, as most of my users wouldn't know a > public key from their house key (LOL). I was hoping it would be > simpler than that. >
If you generate their key pairs for them, how are you going to safely send them their private keys? If they can't generate a keypair, they probably can't secure it with a passphrase. Generating a keypair is easy for Linux and Mac users, and only slightly more complicated for Windows users. (They have the additional step of installing something like putty.) -dsr-
