On Sat, 2018-06-23 at 16:35 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > > On 06/22/2018 03:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 06/22/2018 04:37 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > > > 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? > > > > That's handled by gnome-keyring and, as of this version of GNOME, > > ssh-agent. As far as I can tell, those are both required > > components, > > so they're probably not missing on your workstation. The problem > > *might* be that GNOME keyring will only automatically unlock > > private > > keys if there is a valid public key with the same name, and a .pub > > suffix. So, you might not have the public keys. Or, you might have > > a > > .pub file that's *really* old and no longer valid. > > > > There is an open bug concerning the fact that if there is an > > invalid > > .pub file in .ssh, GNOME keyring won't automatically unlock *any* > > keys, so remove any old key files. > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568895 > > my .ssh directory has my private key in a file called "id_rsa" > nothing > with .pub on the end and if I understand correctly running ssh will > look > for the private key in a few different file names, none of which end > with .pub.
Or use AddKeysToAgent option in ssh_config, which will automatically add the keys to the agent on first use. -- Jakub Jelen Software Engineer Security Technologies Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZZPIEZ6UVESJQDJ7E6DQ5CRCFNITMJR/
