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Scratching your head on why keys should be generated by users? Think passwords. You almost always Any enterprise grade environment will ask you to define your own password on systems which is . Your password is then hashed and never revealed to the Administrator. In the case of Administrators setting where an Administrator sets your initial password, the password will be a "one time" where the system will prompt you to set a new password upon successful authentication you then set to your own. |
With a Unix based system this can be accomplished with the command line as follows. Windows does not have a native way of doing this, but most Windows ssh client programs will provide a gui means of key generation.
It actually does not matter what kind of system the keys are generate on. The keys from one type of system can easily be moved to another.
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