Re: importing SSH keys - or store their keyrings

[Benedict Stein <benedict stein googlemail com>]

I'll open this bug later this day and subscribe yu to this one.

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Benedict Stein
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2010/5/5 Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>:
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 22:16 +0200, Benedict Stein wrote:
>> fyi, ssh keys are autoimported if id_rsa (private) and id_rsa.pub are
>> both within ~/.ssh
>>
>> it might be appropriate to note this thing to some kind of
>> documentation and FAQ
>>
>> If both private and public file are in that Dir ssh key questions are
>> handled by seahorse
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>> => so were is the problem using the import key dialog to simply CP the
>> SSH keys ? - if I'd have more time I would dive into it and try it my
>> self - but there is no spare time yet.
>>
>> Am Dienstag, den 04.05.2010, 19:41 +0200 schrieb Benedict Stein:
>> > HI list,
>> >
>> > as you might have noticed some users including me reinstalled the
>> > whole system during the release of Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS.
>> > After the reinstalltion I've imported the GPG keys successfully, but
>> > failed to do the same with the SSH key.
>> > I've only stored my private one - which I know now wasn't the best
>> > way, and I've already read that there is NO way to import SSH Keys
>> > into seahorse. (FAQ)
>> >
>> > So my question is what does I have to do to use both together again,
>> > SSH key and seahorse, does I have to create a new SSH key and use
>> > this one instead.
>> > Why is there no way of importing SSH Keys - even if SSH are as easy
>> > handled as just copying to ~/.ssh/
>> >
>> > It would be nice of you If you'd help me out with those questions
>> > and possibly provide a way how I could use GIT wihouht entering the
>> > SSH passphrase on every Push and Pull - In Karmic it was auto
>> > accepted because of the stored password in seahorse.
>> >
>> >
>> > Kindest Regards
>> > Benedict Stein
>>
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> Hi Benedict,
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> I try and keep up Seahorse's documentation and noting that manually
> copying the .ssh directory auto-imports is a good idea.
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> I'm traveling this week for the GNOME Marketing Hackfest - would you
> mind opening a bug in Bugzilla for Seahorse and assign it to docs and
> I'll take care of fixing it this cycle?  (Otherwise I know I'll forget).
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> Thank you.
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> Paul
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