Re: gnome-keyring Use PGP key for SSH with keyring?

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

On 07/16/2012 11:24 PM, Jeroen Budts wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I would like to use my PGP key to authenticate to SSH. I found some
> different articles which explain that it is possible. Most articles
> explain to use gpg-agent with the --enable-ssh-support as a
> replacement for ssh-agent. I also found one article explaining that
> (as of ssh 2.0.13), it should be possible to add your PGP key to the
> ssh-agent with ssh-add. Also the pgpkey2ssh script was mentioned,
> which I used to add my PGP key to my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. I also
> found some mentions about Monkeysphere.
> 
> However, none of these methods seem to work. I'm currently using GNOME
> Keyring under XFCE (Stopped using GNOME a year ago, but still really
> like Keyring).
> If I understand it correctly GNOME Keyring doesn't use the default
> ssh-agent and gpg-agents, but uses replacements? So my question is: is
> it possible to use a PGP key to authenticate to SSH with GNOME
> keyring? And how can it be done? Am I missing something here?

You can disable the GNOME SSH agent, and then use whatever agent you prefer:

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Ssh

Cheers,

Stef