Bug#935135: ssh-add: loads key with wrong key comment, impairing key management

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Timo WeingДrtner dixit:

>If
>
>$ file .ssh/id_pvt
>
>shows "OpenSSH private key" (instead of "PEM RSA private key") try:

Oh, indeed, it does.

tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ file .ssh/id_!(*.*)
.ssh/id_maven: PEM RSA private key
.ssh/id_pvt:   OpenSSH private key
.ssh/id_rsa:   PEM RSA private key

>$ ssh-keygen -c -C id_pvt -f .ssh/id_pvt
>
>to change the embedded comment. The new private key storage format
>contains an own comment.

Didn’t even know they had a new private key format… which is very
opaque…

… this worked, but the key comment for the PEM keys is also
completely ignored, and they’re listed with pathname instead.

This is weird.

bye,
//mirabilos
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