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Re: Proposed patch: ssh-keygen allows writing to stdout for moduli gener

To: Christian Pfaffel-Janser <christian.pfaffel-janser@SIEMENS.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: ssh-keygen allows writing to stdout for moduli generation
From: Darren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:09:09 +1100
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Christian Pfaffel-Janser wrote:
> I propose the following patch to ssh-keygen.c for openssh version 4.5.
> It allows to redirect output of the moduli operations to stdout, to do
> something like e.g.:
> 
> $ ssh-keygen -G - -b 2048 | ssh-keygen -T - -f - >moduli

If your platform has it you can use /dev/stdout for this:

ssh-keygen -b 2048 -G /dev/stdout | ssh-keygen -T - -f - >moduli

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Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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