From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: 75392@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75392: “Failed to read private key” error with libssh 0.11.1
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:07:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzb73scn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bjwkonif.fsf@inria.fr> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:21:28 +0100")
Hello,
> It would seem that somehow libssh dismisses whatever gpg-agent tells it
> and then goes on to read key files directly.
Turns out the problem was sorta between keyboard and chair, but not
just!
Namely:
1. libssh 0.11.x no longer recognizes DSA keys (which is reasonable),
and it would choke when encountering one: “Unknown key type
found!”, from ‘ssh_pki_import_pubkey_blob’.
2. I had stale DSA keys under ~/.ssh, so I removed them.
3. Problem: silly gpg-agent (which I use with ‘--enable-ssh-support’)
would keep serving those DSA keys that I had removed! Turns out it
caches private keys under ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d so I also had
to remove them as well.
After that, everything went well. Pfew.
Ludo’.
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2025-01-05 23:21 bug#75392: “Failed to read private key” error with libssh 0.11.1 Ludovic Courtès
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