Appendix H. Creating and Configuring a Secure Shell Identity Key-pair for Rivendell

Table of Contents

H.1. Overview
H.2. Requirements
H.3. Generating the Keys
H.3.1. Procedure

H.1. Overview

Rivendell supports the use of a public/private key pair (also referred to as an "identity" in the Secure Shell documentation) for SFTP file transfers. This appendix provides an example of how to generate and install such a set of key pair files so that they can be used by Rivendell.