Bug 2342

Summary:

ssh-keygen gives wrong error loading public key message

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

Ismail Donmez <ismail>

Component:

ssh-keygen

Assignee:

Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

Severity:

enhancement

CC:

djm

Priority:

Version:

6.7p1

Hardware:

Other

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

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Problematic file	none

Description Ismail Donmez 2015-01-23 23:43:17 AEDT

Using latest openssh-portable.git

[~]> cat foo 
i10z.com ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIIkPOwWQHARlE7C+wFr2dl/zUu97AUG/YpfwgpDgYH2z

[~]> /usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen -l -f ./foo
Error loading public key "./foo": No such file or directory
256 SHA256:9BPlb4ZU9f4OP3LEz9cqYhJYR5EtefTd3PInri50Zc4 i10z.com (ED25519)

Using ssh-keygen from openssh 6.6.1p1 :

[~]> /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -l -f ./foo 
256 10:3a:04:2d:ea:63:64:31:6c:de:ec:4c:ae:fb:ef:dc [MD5] i10z.com (ED25519)

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2015-02-21 09:19:05 AEDT

I can't replicate this:

[djm@fuyu openssh]$ mkdir x
[djm@fuyu openssh]$ cd x
[djm@fuyu x]$ ../ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f key -N '' -q
[djm@fuyu x]$ ../ssh-keygen -lf ^C
[djm@fuyu x]$ rm key ; mv key.pub key
[djm@fuyu x]$ ../ssh-keygen -lf key
256 SHA256:0UH+G0Bw+ZP3rqTwxsio5CUTrKkS/kcJ26RwV3Twbyw djm@fuyu (ED25519)

Comment 2 Ismail Donmez 2015-02-23 21:06:06 AEDT

(In reply to Damien Miller from comment #1)
> I can't replicate this:
> 
> [djm@fuyu openssh]$ mkdir x
> [djm@fuyu openssh]$ cd x
> [djm@fuyu x]$ ../ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f key -N '' -q
> [djm@fuyu x]$ ../ssh-keygen -lf ^C
> [djm@fuyu x]$ rm key ; mv key.pub key
> [djm@fuyu x]$ ../ssh-keygen -lf key
> 256 SHA256:0UH+G0Bw+ZP3rqTwxsio5CUTrKkS/kcJ26RwV3Twbyw djm@fuyu
> (ED25519)

I can't replicate like this either but I can replicate with my original key:

[~/x]> cat key
i10z.com ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIIkPOwWQHARlE7C+wFr2dl/zUu97AUG/YpfwgpDgYH2z

[~/x]> /usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen -l -f key
Error loading public key "key": No such file or directory
256 SHA256:9BPlb4ZU9f4OP3LEz9cqYhJYR5EtefTd3PInri50Zc4 i10z.com (ED25519)

Comment 3 Ismail Donmez 2015-02-23 21:07:35 AEDT

Created attachment 2554 [details]
Problematic file

Comment 4 Damien Miller 2015-02-24 03:57:24 AEDT

Ah, I missed that it had a host prefix. I've replicated and fixed the bug (which was just the spurious error message)

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 15:09:20 AEST

closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release