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| author | Jamie McClelland <jm@mayfirst.org> | 2008-08-23 18:37:24 -0400 |
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| committer | Jamie McClelland <jm@mayfirst.org> | 2008-08-23 18:37:24 -0400 |
| commit | 050a25e46533b50095f3a995c5e1929973e47299 (patch) | |
| tree | 6533e6a57ecf0f7ed82cf42ef3c41f3c85c6e059 /doc | |
| parent | c329ccb6fd64234ec64fed0f0a4262a5522e8f58 (diff) | |
adding directions for adding your gpg auth subkey to ssh agent.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README | 51 |
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -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? |