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If the passphrase is lost or forgotten, a new key must be generated

and the corresponding public key copied to other machines.

.Pp

For RSA1 keys and keys stored in the newer OpenSSH format,

For keys stored in the newer OpenSSH format,

there is also a comment field in the key file that is only for

convenience to the user to help identify the key.

The comment can tell what the key is for, or whatever is useful.

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Provides a new comment.

.It Fl c

Requests changing the comment in the private and public key files.

This operation is only supported for RSA1 keys and keys stored in the

This operation is only supported for keys stored in the

newer OpenSSH format.

The program will prompt for the file containing the private keys, for

the passphrase if the key has one, and for the new comment.

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Prints the contents of one or more certificates.

.It Fl l

Show fingerprint of specified public key file.

Private RSA1 keys are also supported.

For RSA and DSA keys

.Nm

tries to find the matching public key file and prints its fingerprint.