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desperado

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Registered: 2018-10-12

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[Solved] Generating SSH key pairs for AUR account

Suppose my AUR username is `$username`. My current ssh config file contains this.

Host aur-$username
    User aur
    HostName aur.archlinux.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/$filename

I am trying to generate an ssh key pair using the following command. 

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C $comment -f $HOME/.ssh/$filename

Can the three variables here (username, filename, comment) be completely different from each other?

Last edited by desperado (2022-11-27 17:20:15)

yochananmarqos

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Registered: 2020-02-05

Posts: 222

Re: [Solved] Generating SSH key pairs for AUR account

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish, but all you need to to is follow: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_su … entication

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [Solved] Generating SSH key pairs for AUR account

Yes.  Why couldn't they be?  A comment is a comment ... so it doesn't matter.  A filename is just a name of a file, so it can be any (legal) name.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-11-20 23:10:39)

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