Re: gnome-keyring failing to read/detect user keys: initial contact

[Matt Darcy <matt projecthugo co uk>]

On 11/10/10 22:52, Stef Walter wrote:

> 
> No problem. BTW, a good place to contact is the
> gnome-keyring-list gnome org in events like this. I've CC'd this email
> there.

Superb, thank you for this, I didn't look at posting to a list to be
honest as I didn't want to subscribe to ask one simple question then
remove, but I should have used the wider audience. Thanks.


> 
> Do you have a .pub file for your key? The way in which we detected which
> files where SSH keys changed at some point in the past.
> 
> Previously we would load files matching: ~/.ssh/id_?sa
> 
> Now we look for ~/.ssh/*.pub and then loading corresponding secret keys.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stef

Ok - this is interesting and very useful, I just have my private id_dsa
key in my .ssh directory as I don't key my public an private keys
together on my laptop, I'll dump my public key in the same directory now
and see if it works, I actually didn't think of this as a possible
problem, on the remote server the .pub file is in the authorized_keys
file and I assumed it would check to match against that rather than the
local .pub file.

thanks for the tip, if this works, I'll update the bug and get it closed.

thanks,

Matt.