Comment 1 for bug 1686426

From: Matthew Vernon <mv3 at SANGER.AC.UK>
Subject: Moonshot id selection in text-only consoles
Date: 27 April 2017 at 11:31:14 BST
To: MOONSHOT-DEV

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A couple of thoughts came up (largely not mine), and it was suggested that someone forward them to this list. Essentially, there are already a couple of solutions to this sort of problem already, most of the agent form, and we wondered if any of them could either be extended (e.g. have ssh-add also grok moonshot ids) or a similar model copied. The 2[0] approaches already used to solve similar problems are:

i) an init command a la kinit
ii) an agent a la ssh-add/ssh-agent or the gpg agent

If nothing else, perhaps people with gpg available could have something that lets them use the gpg-agent to decrypt a moonshot identity file into a tmpfs and let moonshot see that, perhaps?

It seems likely that some of our plausible use cases will be in environments where an X/Windows/OSX GUI window will be hard to come by.

Regards,

Matthew

[0] they're not that different in implementation, I think