Hi Giovanni-- Thanks for the report!
On 03/15/2011 12:26 PM, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > It seems that ssh-add is unable to import a key from a pipe on > my system, thus making "monkeysphere s" not working. This is http://bugs.debian.org/614897, which already has a patch for OpenSSH to resolve the issue. Feel free to poke that bug and encourage the fix of the root problem, or upstream at: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869 > I don't know why you prefer to use a pipe instead of a temporary > file, but the attached patch fixes this issue. The material being passed through this file is unlocked secret key material. We would rather not write that data to the filesystem as a temporary file for a couple reasons: * most filesystems don't actually remove the data from the disk when the temporary files are unlinked. FIFOs, otoh, write nothing to disk on any filesystem i've heard of. * while the file exists, multiple processes can read from it. data written to a FIFO gets read by at most one reader (ideally the ssh-add process) So i'd prefer to not regress to writing to a temporary file if we can just get the underlying problem fixed instead. Regards, --dkg
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