Welcome back.
In the last election, we've seen how to generate an SNH public and private keep bear on windows using
boutique generator.
However, if you are not using Windows but Linux, it is of no help to you.
You have to generate the keys on Linux.
So if you are using Windows is your desktop operating system, you can skip this lecture.
In this lecture, I'll show you how to generate the SSX keep bear used for public key authentication
on Linux.
Most modern Linux distributions come with SSX package that already contains besides the SSA command,
which is the SSX client, another command called SSA Key that is used to generate the SSA repair used
for authentication.
So on this Linux machine called Linux one, I'm executing a search kitchen to generate the Keys SSA
to minus KIGEN.
This is the command and the options minus B two thousand forty eight.
Minus T, RSA, an uppercase C, and a comment between double quotes, let's say Linux user and the
date January 2000 20 before hitting enter.
Let me explain to you the options minus B specifies the number of beats in the key to create.
Generally two thousand forty eight beats is considered sufficient if you want better.
Security is a larger key minus D specifies the type of key to create and we are using an RSA key pair.
This is the most common option and minus C take care of an uppercase C letter specifies a comment.
Feel free to write anything that uniquely identifies this key.
And I'm hitting the enter key.
I'm hitting the turkey again and one more time.
Perfect, as you probably have noticed, the generated files are the underlying RSA pop for the public
key.
OK, this is the public key and I the underline RSA for the private key.
And the files have been saved in a hidden directory called that SSX in user's home directory.
Also, notice that I didn't enter any passwords, so the private key is not encrypted.
But that's OK.
Let's see the context of that SSX directory, the user's home directories, Slashdot, SSX.
This is a hidden director.
Keep this in mind.
OK, these are the keys, the private key.
And the publication of XOL, now that we have the keys, will move to the next step, which is to configure
the SSA server or deman for public authentication, I'll show you how to configure it both on Cisco
Io's and Linux in the next lecture's over this course.