I've had issues copying public keys to authorized_keys and winding up with an extra linefeed or space or something.
Is there a way to simply validate that a key looks like a valid key? I don't have the private key.
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Maybe ssh-keygen -lf authorized_keys is enough.
ssh-keygen -lf authorized_keys
key_read: uudecode AAAAB3Nzaf1a8eEABBABIwAAAQEA1y8gXks+s19QFdLP3ddei
failed
authorized_keys is not a public key file.
(You may copy the respective line to a separate file before checking.) If the hashing function is too stupid to detect errors then converting back and forth may do:
ssh-keygen -ef id_dsa.pub -m PKCS8 | ssh-keygen -i -f /dev/stdin -m PKCS8
I expect that pipeline to fail in case of formatting errors.
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Great - the first form detected the two error types.Steve Bennett– Steve Bennett2013-07-08 07:37:13 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 7:37