On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Philip Guenther wrote:
> ssh-keygen's -l option is not designed for operation with pipes. In
> particular, depending on the key type in the file, it generally needs
> to open and read the file multiple times. That is, it first passes
> the filename to the "read file as RSA1 private key" routine; if that
> fails then it passes the filename to the "read file as RSA1 public
> key" routine, etc.
Out of curiosity why not have ssh-keygen buffer the key and then work on
it? That would be one way to have it work with pipes.
Regards,
-Lars
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