On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:59:01PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > In order to use SFTP, I will be needing to generate key pairs for all > my users, all of whom will log into the same directory structure. It > seems no one on the system has keys generated, or they're not in what > I think is the normal place, ~/.ssh - Should I just create this > directory and use ssh-keygen to put the key files there, naming them > appropriately for each FTP user?
In general, you want your SFTP users to send you their own public keys, and you drop them into ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys That way they can guard their private keys appropriately. Creating /etc/skel/.ssh/ will make sure that new users get that directory created for them automatically. -dsr-