gtlssh-keygen(1)

NAME
gtlssh-keygen - Key handling for gtlssh

SYNOPSIS
gtlssh-keygen [options] <command> [command options]

DESCRIPTION
The gtlssh-keygen program is used for making key handling for gtlssh easier. Generally, when you start using gtlssh on a system, you would run
  gtlssh-keygen keygen and it would create keys for you. You should do the same thing on any target system you want to log into with gtlssh. Then copy the default.crt file in your $HOME/.gtlssh directory to the target's $HOME/.gtlssh/allowed_certs directory. After that you should be able to log in without a password. When you need to regenerate your keys, you run
  gtlssh-keygen keygen again. It will prompt you for replacement. If you replace the keys, the old keys will be saved with a ".1" appended to the filename. Once you replace they keys, you need to push up new keys to all your target. You can run
  gtlssh-keygen pushcert target1 [target2 [....]] to update they keys on all those targets. It will use the old credentials (with the ".1" appended) to do this, so it should work easily.

DIFFERENCES FROM SSH
Unlike ssh, ssl keys have lifetimes. By default gtlssh creates 1 year lifetimes on keys, though you can override this. Although this is a little annoying, it is a good idea to replace your keys periodically, so you could call this a good thing. gtlssh lets you create keys for specific targets and use them automatically. Suppose, for instance, that you want to use a different key for logging into target abc.my.domain. You would do:
  gtlssh-keygen keygen abc.my.domain and it would create a key and certificate in the directory .gtlssh/keycerts with the names abc.my.domain.crt and abc.my.domain.key. You would need to copy that certificate (not the default.crt) to your remote target. gtlssh would see that those keys were there and use them automatically when you logged in to abc.my.domain. The pushcert command understands this, too, and will handle pushing the proper keys when you push to abc.my.domain. You can also add ports to the key generation, and it will only use it if you connect to the specific target on the specific port. This could be useful for ser2net.

OPTIONS

--keysize size
    Create an RSA key with the given number of bits. Default is 2048. Usually 1024, 2048, or 4096.

--keydays days
    Create a key that expires in the given number of days. Default is 365.

--basedir dir
    Base directory for gtlssh. Default is $HOME/.gtlssh. Default keys go here.

--keydir dir
    Location to put the non-default generated keys. Default is $HOME/.gtlssh/keycerts

--commonname name
    Set the common name in the certificate. The default is your username for normal certificates and the fully qualified domain name for server certificates.

--force | -f
    Don't ask any questions, just force the operations. Be careful, this will overwrite data without asking.

-h|--help
    Help output

COMMAND
Commands are:

keygen [-p <port>] [hostname]
    Setup of the base directory (if not already set up) and create keys. If nothing is specified, create the default key in <basedir>/default.key and <basedir>/default.crt. Otherwise create keys in the form <keydir>/<host>[,<port>].key and <keydir>/<host>[,<port>].crt.

setup
    Like keygen, but take no options and create the default certificate only.

rehash [directory [directory [...]]]
    The openssl library used by gtlssh requires that certificates in a library be hashed so it can find them. This command redoes the hashes in the given directories. If no directory is specified, it rehashes <basedir>/allowed_certs and <basedir>/server_certs. Note that if you add keys to these directories, you must rehash them or they will not work. rehash will automatically remove any certificates that have expired.

addallow [-i] <hostname> <file>
    Add the given file as an allowed public certificate for the given hostname. It will install this file in the directory in <basedir>/allowed_certs with the name "hostname.crt". It will also rehash the directory. If -i is specified, input comes from stdin and the file is not required or used. If the destination file already exists, it will rename it "hostname.crt.1.crt".

pushcert [-n <name> ] [-p <port>] <hostname> [[-p <port>] <hostname> [...]]
    Put the local certificate for the given host onto the remote host so it can be used for login. It uses old credentials (credentials with .1 appended to the name, per keygen) if they are there. This is useful if you have upated your certificate and need to send a new one to some remote hosts. It finds the certificate name as described in the keygen command. If old credentials exist, it will use those to connect with gtlssh and send the certificate. Otherwise it will use default credentials and hope for the best, probably only useful if passwords are accepcted. This only works one keygen back, if you have run the keygen command twice for the host, you will need to transfer the certificate manually. By default the credential on the remote host is named the output of 'hostname -f' on the local machine, -n overrides this.

serverkey
    Create keys for the server, generally in /etc/gtlssh/gtlsshd.key and /etc/gtlssh/gtlsshd.crt. You generally must be root to do this. Use for initial setup of gtlsshd.

SEE ALSO
gtlssh(1), gtlsshd(8)

KNOWN PROBLEMS
None.

AUTHOR

Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>