On 2 September 2014 15:52, Aidan Feldman <aidan.feldman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am going to preface this email by saying that I know very little > about OpenSSH internals, the protocol, etc. > > I do a lot of work with novice programmers, and one step that comes up > relatively early is generating SSH keys. In case you haven't done it > in a while, the output looks like this: > > $ ssh-keygen -t rsa > Generating public/private rsa key pair. > Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/aidan/.ssh/id_rsa): > Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): > > When that last step comes up, I am regularly asked, "Does it mean the > system password, or a new one?" A slight tweak of the language could > easily eliminate that confusion... something like "Enter passphrase > for the new key" or "Enter new passphrase". Perhaps "Enter new passphrase to encrypt the key (empty for no encryption):" This makes it clear that it needs to be a new phrase, and what it will be used for. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
