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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:30:10 +0200
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p ssh-agent and unix keys
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On 9 September 2015 at 17:55, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have an ssh key, id_rsa, generated with the unix tools.
> I want to have it put into factotum and use it via p9p ssh-agent.
> I now the id_rsa key is ok, I can use it to get to the remote system.
>
> Now, I did this (in bash):
>
> ;killall ssh-agent
> ;killall factotum
> ;eval $(9 ssh-agent -e)
> ;factotum -n
> ;pemdecode 'RSA PRIVATE KEY' id_rsa | asn12rsa >rsa2
> ;cat rsa2 | 9p write -l factotum/ctl
>
> but when I now issue
> ;9 ssh-agent -l
>
> I get nothing (and really the ssh login doesn't work
> if the original id_rsa is removed).

for the record:

I found out the produced rsa2 key has to have a

service=ssh-rsa

added; only then 9 ssh-agent finds it in factotum.
Finaly, everything works.

Ruda