On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Martin Airs <martin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Same here, I'm currently using the same approach but am interested in other potentially "more clean" methods. -AdamM > Martin > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
