Re: SSH Key Management on KDE

[Martin Airs]

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(a)yours.com"
>  ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_2 -C "yours(a)yours.com"
>  ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/test_ssh_key_3 -C "yours(a)yours.com"
>  
>  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