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diff --git a/DOC/man-puttygen.but b/DOC/man-puttygen.but index 021af205..e6a2c990 100644 --- a/DOC/man-puttygen.but +++ b/DOC/man-puttygen.but @@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ \e bbbbbbbb iiiiiii bb iiiiiii bb iiii bbbbbbbb iiiiii bb \c [ -C new-comment ] [ -P ] [ --reencrypt ] \e bb iiiiiiiiiii bb bbbbbbbbbbb -\c [ -O output-type | -l | -L | -p | --dump ] [ -E fptype ] -\e bb iiiiiiiiiii bb bb bb bbbbbb bb iiiiii -\c [ --ppk-param key=value,... ] -\e bbbbbbbbbbb iiibiiiiib +\c [ --certificate cert-file | --remove-certificate ] +\e bbbbbbbbbbbbb iiiiiiiii bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb +\c [ -O output-type | -l | -L | -p | --dump | --cert-info ] +\e bb iiiiiiiiiii bb bb bb bbbbbb bbbbbbbbbbb +\c [ --ppk-param key=value,... | -E fptype ] +\e bbbbbbbbbbb iiibiiiiib bb iiiiii \c [ -o output-file ] \e bb iiiiiiiiiii @@ -58,8 +60,9 @@ ssh.com's implementation. You can also specify a file containing only a \e{public} key here. The operations you can do are limited to outputting another public -key format or a fingerprint. Public keys can be in RFC 4716 or -OpenSSH format, or the standard SSH-1 format. +key format (possibly removing an attached certificate first), or a +fingerprint. Public keys can be in RFC 4716 or OpenSSH format, or +the standard SSH-1 format. } @@ -143,6 +146,19 @@ to type). automatic when you are generating a new key, but not when you are modifying an existing key. +\dt \cw{\-\-certificate} \e{certificate-file} + +\dd Adds an OpenSSH-style certificate to the public half of the key, +so that the output file contains a certified public key with the same +private key. If the input file already contained a certificate, it +will be replaced with the new one. (Use \cq{-} to read a certificate +from standard input.) + +\dt \cw{\-\-remove\-certificate} + +\dd Removes any certificate that was part of the key, to recover the +uncertified version of the underlying key. + \dt \cw{\-\-reencrypt} \dd For an existing private key saved with a passphrase, refresh the @@ -260,6 +276,13 @@ newer format even for RSA, DSA, and ECDSA keys. \dd Save an SSH-2 private key in ssh.com's format. This option is not permitted for SSH-1 keys. +\dt \cw{cert-info} + +\dd Save a textual dump of information about the certificate on the +key, if any: whether it's a host or a user certificate, what host(s) +or user(s) it's certified to be, its validity period, ID and serial +number, and the fingerprint of the signing CA. + \dt \cw{text} \dd Save a textual dump of the numeric components comprising the key @@ -269,8 +292,9 @@ SSH. \lcont{ The output consists of a series of \cw{name=value} lines, where each -\c{value} is either a C-like string literal in double quotes, or a -hexadecimal number starting with \cw{0x...} +\c{value} is either a C-like string literal in double quotes, a +hexadecimal number starting with \cw{0x...}, or a binary blob +encoded with base64, denoted by \cw{b64("...")}. } If no output type is specified, the default is \c{private}. @@ -283,8 +307,9 @@ If no output type is specified, the default is \c{private}. this option is not specified, \c{puttygen} will assume you want to overwrite the original file if the input and output file types are the same (changing a comment or passphrase), and will assume you -want to output to stdout if you are asking for a public key or -fingerprint. Otherwise, the \c{\-o} option is required. +want to output to stdout if you are asking for a public key, +fingerprint, or one of the textual dump types. Otherwise, the +\c{\-o} option is required. \dt \cw{\-l} @@ -298,6 +323,10 @@ fingerprint. Otherwise, the \c{\-o} option is required. \dd Synonym for \q{\cw{-O public}}. +\dt \cw{\-\-cert\-info} + +\dd Synonym for \q{\cw{-O cert-info}}. + \dt \cw{\-\-dump} \dd Synonym for \q{\cw{-O text}}. @@ -305,7 +334,18 @@ fingerprint. Otherwise, the \c{\-o} option is required. \dt \cw{-E} \e{fptype} \dd Specify the algorithm to use if generating a fingerprint. The -options are \cw{sha256} (the default) and \cw{md5}. +available algorithms are are \cw{sha256} (the default) and \cw{md5}. + +\lcont{ + +By default, when showing the fingerprint of a public key that includes +a certificate, \c{puttygen} will not include the certificate, so that +the fingerprint shown will be the same as the underlying public key. +If you want the fingerprint including the certificate (for example, so +as to tell two certified keys apart), you can specify \cw{sha256-cert} +or \cw{md5-cert} as the fingerprint type. + +} \dt \cw{\-\-new\-passphrase} \e{file} |