On Tuesday 08 July 2014 14:07:35 Sudhir Khanger wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering how you guys manage multiple ssh keys on your system. > > This is how I got to manage multiple keys on my system. > > Generate keys > ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_1 -C "yours@xxxxxxxxx" > ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_2 -C "yours@xxxxxxxxx" > ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_3 -C "yours@xxxxxxxxx" > > ksshaskpass came already installed and SSH_ASKPASS set to > /usr/bin/ksshaskpass. > > Moving on these keys can be added to ssh-agent using following command. > > ssh-add ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_1 > > I ran these commands through KRunner so it triggers ksshaskpass and > not password prompt on the terminal. This way Kwallet will save the > password and I will not be asked to enter passphrase every time I am > accessing anything over ssh. > > In order to automatically load these keys at system start I created > following script. > > ~/.kde/Autostart/ksshaskpass > > #!/bin/sh > export SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/bin/ksshaskpass > ssh-add ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_1 < /dev/null > ssh-add ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_2 < /dev/null > ssh-add ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_3 < /dev/null > > chmod 755 ~/.kde/Autostart/ksshaskpass > > The problem is if KWallet is not opened as soon as system is started > KDE will start the script triggering ksshaskpass to ask to enter > password for the first ssh key. This is a working setup but not > perfect. > > I was wondering if there is a way to ssh-add the key to ssh-agent > on-demand or maybe trigger to open KWallet instead of ksshaskpass. > > What is wrong with my setup? How do you manage your ssh keys? Thats exactly how I do it too, love to know of other ways Martin
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