From 050a25e46533b50095f3a995c5e1929973e47299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jamie McClelland Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:37:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] adding directions for adding your gpg auth subkey to ssh agent. --- doc/README | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README index 684f524..cf8a8d6 100644 --- a/doc/README +++ b/doc/README @@ -85,17 +85,52 @@ by the type of key (e.g. 1024D) followed by a slash and then your keyid. Using your OpenPGP authentication key for SSH --------------------------------------------- -Once you have created a OpenPGP authentication key, you can feed it to -your ssh agent by running seckey2sshagent (currently this is found in -the src directory). Please run: +Once you have created an OpenPGP authentication key, you will need to +feed it to your ssh agent. -./seckey2sshagent --help +Currently (2008-08-23), gnutls does not support this operation. In order +to take this step, you will need to upgrade to a patched version of +gnutls. You can easily upgrade a Debian system by adding the following +to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/monkeysphere.list: -And read the directions - particularly the part about being dropped into -a gpg edit session. This is a work in progress! + deb http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls + deb-src http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls -NOTE: the current version of openpgp2ssh does *not* deal well with -encrypted keys (as of 2008-07-26) +And then adding the following to /etc/apt/preferences: + + Package: libgnutls26 + Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project + Pin-Priority: 990 + + Package: libgnutls26-dbg + Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project + Pin-Priority: 990 + + Package: gnutls-bin + Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project + Pin-Priority: 990 + + Package: gnutls-doc + Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project + Pin-Priority: 990 + + Package: guile-gnutls + Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project + Pin-Priority: 990 + + Package: gnutls-dev + Pin: release o=The MonkeySphere Project + Pin-Priority: 990 + +Next, run `aptitude update; aptitude install libgnuttls26`. + +With the patched gnutls installed, you can feed your authentication sub +key to your ssh agent by running: + + monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent + +You may want to add this command to your ~/.xsession file so it is run +automatically everytime you login. FIXME: using the key with a single session? -- 2.25.1