ssh-import-lp-id cannot handle multi-line ssh public keys

[Dustin Kirkland ]

Binary package hint: cloud-utils

SSH public keys should always be one single line.

Launchpad, however, seems to allow multi-line public keys. This is perhaps a bug in Launchpad (?).

However, ssh-import-lp-id is not able to handle this gracefully, but should.

It should automatically co-join subsequent lines, if part of a single key.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Thanks to Jos Boumans for the elegant perl one liner.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package cloud-utils - 0.13ubuntu1

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cloud-utils (0.13ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * ssh-import-lp-id: handle multi-line ssh public keys in Launchpad,
    LP: #596938; thanks to Jos Boumans for the elegant snippet of perl that
    fixes this
  [ Clint Byrum ]
  * uec-run-instances: rewritten command with much larger scope
 -- Scott Moser <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:40:09 -0400

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I'd like to see this published to lucid-updates, eventually, once it's gotten a little bit of burn time in Maverick. This bug bites people pretty often, actually.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Dustin Kirkland wrote:

> I'd like to see this published to lucid-updates, eventually, once it's
> gotten a little bit of burn time in Maverick. This bug bites people
> pretty often, actually.

Its not as if it is very difficult to fix the problem outside of code.

If you try 'ssh-import-lp-id <USER>' so that you can let USER into your
system, and it fails, you can tell them to fix their launchpad keys to not
have carriage returns in them and re-run the command.

If its something you do once, then its no big deal. If its something
you're wanting to automate, its still no big deal (the user has to make a
single change to fix this in the database).

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hmm, it would be nice if Launchpad would clean this up itself, actually....

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".