2022/05/18/ssh-passphrases-kde/

[giscus[bot]]

2022/05/18/ssh-passphrases-kde/

I finally (shame on me) cycled all my SSH keys to use passphrases. One thing I massively dislike is having to enter my passphrase when using them. ssh-agent to the rescue!

https://kcore.org/2022/05/18/ssh-passphrases-kde/

[talentlessguy]

Thanks for the article.

I've noticed a few issues:

For ssh-agent-startup.sh it should be #/!bin/bash instead of #!bin/bash

Running the automatic key import is not gonna work because there's no trailing _ at the end of keys, it should be this instead:

#!/bin/bash

# Wait for kwallet
kwallet-query -l kdewallet > /dev/null

for KEY in $(ls $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa* | grep -v \.pub); do
  ssh-add -q ${KEY} </dev/null
done

for KEY in $(ls $HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519* | grep -v \.pub); do
  ssh-add -q ${KEY} </dev/null
done

[jdeluyck]

Hi,

Thanks for this. I've added the missing / in the shell.
For the other thing - the missing _ - that is really a user thing. My keys do have id__, so for me this works.

[Roy-Orbison]

Thanks for this write-up. I had to change the process search to be more specific, otherwise it matched previously killed instances that sometimes hang around as zombies, and a /usr/libexec/gcr-ssh-agent process:

pgrep --euid "$USER" --runstates DRS --exact ssh-agent

I also changed the key adding to something like this to avoid both quoting issues, and parsing ls:

for KEY in "$HOME"/.ssh/id_{rsa,ed25519}_*; do
	if [[ "$KEY" != *.pub ]]; then
		ssh-add -q "$KEY" < /dev/null
	fi
done