I'd like to work with user submitted/uploaded SSH public keys from Python. I'm trying to solve what I'd thought might be a simple need: given a user's OpenSSH formatted _public_ key (RSA, or DSA, or whatever), how do you obtain information about it such as: key type (e.g. ssh-rsa, etc.); bit length (e.g. 2048); key comment (e.g. user@hostname); key fingerprint? I've been fiddling with the Paramiko API and looked at PyCrypto (supports OpenSSH keys) and Twisted Conch but didn't see anything that looked like it did this.
I'm looking for the equivalent to this: $ ssh-keygen -l -f tmp.key.pub 2048 9b:31:06:6a:a4:79:97:33:d7:20:15:1f:cd:b4:86:4d dspruell@Sydney.local (RSA) ...to get the attributes of the public key: key type, bit length, fingerprint and comment. Is there an SSH library capable of doing this from Python? Can break out to shell commands to parse them but I'd prefer not to. -- Darren Spruell phatbuck...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
