On 06/22/2018 07:54 AM, Berend De Schouwer wrote:
On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 07:37 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
At one point Fedora had something (keyring?) that would allow me to
unlock my SSH private keys and it would keep the unlocked key
available
so I could ssh without having to unlock my key every time. I
typically
run a simple "terminal" window and then "ssh <hostname>" since my key
is
not retained unlocked I'm prompted for a password.
Fast forward to today, the system had been reinstalled (new
hardware,
new disks, etc) and I no longer have that ability. I'm currently
runn
Fedora 28 and the desktop is "Gnome", I'm sure it is just a matter
of
installing/configuring/running the correct application.... but which
one?
You're *probably* missing the gnome-keyring package.
you'll need:
- ssh-agent (to remember)
- an app that processes your passphrase (gnome-keyring or pinentry-gtk)
ssh-agent is part of openssh-clients. It's usually run by gnome-
keyring-daemon. Look in the process list for it. It should be
running.
ssh-add is a cli app that will let you add the key and trigger a
passphrase without a GUI.
You can see if a key is being remembered by running 'ssh-add -l'
gnome-shell should prompt for the key (the prompt will be themed like
gnome-shell), but so can pinentry/pinentry-gtk (themed like a Gtk2 app)
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ok, I used the two commands -
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
and this works for the one terminal shell I entered the commands in, any
other terminal I either need to re-run the commands in that shell or
unlock my private key when I type ssh <hostname>
not sure if putting the commands in the rc file to run would be the best
thing to do, I suspect I'll have to unlock every time I open a new
window, plus this is not what I remember, I remember (maybe incorrectly)
getting a graphical dialogue box asking me to unlock my key.
Jeff
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