gnupg as ssh-agent

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sat Jul 11 15:57:20 CEST 2009


On 07/10/2009 08:22 PM, Ingo Krabbe wrote:
> [from monkeyspere documentation]
> Then hand off the authentication subkey to the agent (Note: the GnuTLS library
> supports this operation as of version 2.6, but earlier versions do not):
> 
> $ monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent
> [eof monkeyspere documentation]

hum, we're no longer relying on GnuTLS -- those docs should be updated!

> Seems to do what I searched for somehow.  I wonder what special preparations
> $ monkeysphere gen-subkey
> does to the subkey.

All it does is to set the authentication-capable flag, use RSA of a
requested length (it should default to gpg's default size).

	--dkg

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