x2gobroker-keygen(8)

📦 version 0.0.4.3, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ x2gobroker-keygen ✨

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for x2gobroker-keygen from the X2Go Session Broker suite, section 8 of the manual (that's the "admin commands" section, iykyk). grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

x2gobroker-keygen — the girl who generates SSH keys for the X2Go Session Broker 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

x2gobroker-keygen [ options ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea: x2gobroker-keygen generates an SSH pub/priv key pair and makes it usable through the X2Go Session Broker. iconic behaviour, honestly.

Heads up: this command has to be executed once per broker installation, and it requires root privileges. like, actual root. no cap. 🙈

🎀 COMMON OPTIONS 🎀

x2gobroker-keygen accepts the following common options:

  • -h, --help — shows you a help screen with all the available command line options, then dips out (exits). the "just tell me what's going on" button 💅
  • -t {RSA,DSA}, --key_type {RSA,DSA} — picks the SSH pub/priv key type. the allowed values are exactly RSA and DSA. that's it, that's the list ✨
  • -f, --force — re-generates the SSH pub/priv key pair and enforces overwriting of existing key pair files. the "I said what I said" option.
⚠️ WARNING: you will lose previously created key files when this option is used. not "might", not "maybe" — will. so maybe don't hit -f on a whim, bestie 😭

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • ~x2gobroker/.ssh/*

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual has been written for the X2Go project by Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>. give her flowers 💐

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's rocking Version 0.0.4.x, dated Apr 2020, and it lives at the bottom of x2gobroker-keygen(8). go forth and generate those keys responsibly 🫶✨💜

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