[ubuntu-uk] ssh keys on ubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 5 August 2012 12:09, Wayne Roberts <wayne at therobertsfamily.eu> wrote:
> On 05/08/12 12:07, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 5 August 2012 12:04, Wayne Roberts <wayne at therobertsfamily.eu> wrote:
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> Anybody know how to "extract" a ssh public key from ubuntu 12.04?
>> Not sure what you mean by this.  Can you be more explicit?
>>
>> Colin
>>
> Sure,
>
> Lauchpad is asking for my ssh public key.

I don't know why launchpad wants the key but if you want to generate a
public key for use with ssh for example then you can use ssh-keygen.
I use
ssh-keygen -t rsa
Just hit enter when asked, then the key appears in .ssh/id_rsa which
is the private key and id_rsa_pub which is the public.

Colin