I had a doozie of a time getting seahorse (aka: Gnome’s “Passwords and Encryption Keys” program) to recognize my personal SSH keys. The start of the problem was that I’d SSHd my private key (id_rsa) over to the box, but not the public key (id_rsa.pub) which seahorse needs. Not a problem, ssh-keygen -e convienently outputted the public key to the screen which I shoved into id_rsa.pub. The problem was that the key was in the wrong format for seahorse. It looked like this
---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "2048-bit RSA, converted by cpeel from "
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEApTseuoEnUBPIQSLWjOnXY6m4idRLJ+WE49/ov0VA5/
S8+fRHosP7WrBnrja8GLqd9jiG3HOSoFT4BgQ1kBJvyKLg88Kyt5V83dmhWhr2TzWHVeo7
gtOmN0pNT7Xl3dxChLvM1LoAolif9PXLTs81CFwUTCWd+DPMa4SX7Ti8MUscy6YNkyB74A
lsbLM/0JEvBSZd+72ZJlG1laKlt8adcp2EXngnqQn0r9d5ws5kF1J3BbkKtKClssuBSsFR
Bckn7xlnXlO8o6lsq/j9cwpGYAoVy+gE/ZaVNUwG4wvZ9hlqY1sWqo9r9R9KjyVkIdXq0V
IxYCudxLYyEtf30pKrGw==
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
instead of looking like
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEApTseuoEnUBPIQSLWjOnXY6m4idRLJ+WE49/ov0VA5/S8+fRHosP7WrBnrja8GLqd9jiG3HOSoFT4BgQ1kBJvyKLg88Kyt5V83dmhWhr2TzWHVeo7gtOmN0pNT7Xl3dxChLvM1LoAolif9PXLTs81CFwUTCWd+DPMa4SX7Ti8MUscy6YNkyB74AlsbLM/0JEvBSZd+72ZJlG1laKlt8adcp2EXngnqQn0r9d5ws5kF1J3BbkKtKClssuBSsFRBckn7xlnXlO8o6lsq/j9cwpGYAoVy+gE/ZaVNUwG4wvZ9hlqY1sWqo9r9R9KjyVkIdXq0VIxYCudxLYyEtf30pKrGw== cpeel
(that’s all suppose to be on one line).
A simple massaging and seahorse was happy with it.
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