summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Porting
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorYitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>2007-08-03 04:47:22 -0700
committerAbhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>2007-08-04 01:40:18 +0000
commit0fac28e65c3df7a4905870251fba61bf435df523 (patch)
treecaad19d0bf4871180846564d2d91ac9689195e59 /Porting
parent107590b93db0774dedfc46d66b97e8ba9c033c84 (diff)
downloadperl-0fac28e65c3df7a4905870251fba61bf435df523.tar.gz
ssh-keygen usage in repository.pod out of date
Message-Id: <37856.64.81.167.122.1186166842.squirrel@webmail.efn.org> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31681
Diffstat (limited to 'Porting')
-rw-r--r--Porting/repository.pod5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/repository.pod b/Porting/repository.pod
index f51bb19618..637cf2f86d 100644
--- a/Porting/repository.pod
+++ b/Porting/repository.pod
@@ -70,7 +70,10 @@ will be the file F<~/.ssh/identity> which is suitable unless you
particularly want to keep separate ssh identities for some reason.
If so, you could save the perl repository private key in the file
F<~/.ssh/perl>, for example, but I will use the standard filename
-in the remainder of the examples of this document.
+in the remainder of the examples of this document. (Some ssh
+implementations will default to creating a F<~/.ssh/id_rsa*>
+ssh prototcol 2 RSA key pair instead - see below. Use the -t rsa1
+option if you really want a protocol 1 key pair.)
After typing in the filename, it will prompt you to type in a
passphrase. The private key will itself be encrypted so that it is