On Wed Jul 22 2009 16:12:34 GMT-0400 (EDT) , Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/22/2009 03:59 PM, James P. Howard, II wrote: >> I have created a 2048-bit RSA subkey that is authentication only. >> I'd like to use this with SSH. A bit of Googling suggests this >> cannot be used directly unless it is on a smart card, but it isn't >> clear. Have I correctly interpreted this? > > You can use such a subkey without a smartcard by using software > provided by the monkeysphere project: > > http://web.monkeysphere.info/ > > Assuming this is the only authentication-capable subkey on your only > gpg secret key, you'd simply do: > > monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent > > which would load the key into the agent for use. You can pass > additional parameters to ssh-add at the end of the argument list. > For example, if you want to ensure that the key is only held by the > agent for an hour, do: > > monkeysphere subkey-to-ssh-agent -t 3600 That looks like the missing link I was searching for! Thank you. -- James P. Howard, II, MPA [email protected]
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