Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: seahorse-plugins
I'm trying to make gnome-keyring work as my SSH key forwarding agent
properly but I've run into trouble with how my public key is detected.
It seems to be the case that gnome-keyring will automagically recognize
any file matching ~/.ssh/id_rsa or ~/.ssh/id_dsa if they are properly
detected as supported mime types. Regardless of why I'm trying to do
this, the fact is that ~/.ssh/id_rsa is detected as type application
/octet-stream.
I've tried my best to track down the problem but everything seems to be
configured correctly. The shared-mime-info stuff for seahorse is found
in /usr/share/mime/packages/seahorse.xml (which belongs to seahorse-
plugins). It clearly should be catching my id_rsa file as type
application/x-pem-key:
<mime-type type="application/x-pem-key">
<magic priority="90">
<match type="string" value="-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----" offset="0"/>
<match type="string" value="-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----" offset="0"/>
<match type="string" value="-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----"
offset="0"/>
</magic>
</mime-type>
My private key file starts exactly as that mime-type definition says it
should. Here's an octal dump of the top of that file:
$ od -a id_rsa
0000000 - - - - - B E G I N sp R S A sp P
0000020 R I V A T E sp K E Y - - - - - nl
0000040 P r o c - T y p e : sp 4 , E N C
0000060 R Y P T E D nl D E K - I n f o :
0000100 sp D E S - E D E 3 - C B C , 2 7
0000120 B C 9 D 4 5 E E 5 2 3 3 E D nl nl
...
I even copied the string out of the XML file and pasted it at the top of
my id_rsa file. This had no affect on how the file is detected:
$ xdg-mime query filetype id_rsa
application/octet-stream
An extra test:
$ cat > test
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----<ctrl-D>
usern...@host:~/.ssh$ xdg-mime query filetype test
application/octet-stream
What exactly is broken about this mime type rule? If the mime type were
detected properly then it would automatically get associated with
seahorse if I try to open it. I'd also be able to import it into
seahorse. This bugs me.
** Affects: seahorse-plugins (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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id_rsa not detected as x-pem-key
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397145
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