On bazaar and keys

[Doug Smythies]

On 2014.01.03 01:04 Mauricio wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>
wrote:
>> On 2014-01-03 00:16, Doug Smythies wrote:
>>> On 2014.01.02 10:32 Mauricio wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net>
wrote:
>>>>> On 2013.12.02 20:56 Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      Ok, I create ~/.ssh/ubuntu_rsa{,.pub} and uploaded
>>>>>> ubuntu_rsa.pub to my launchpad account. I can do the login part of
the
>>>>>> show,
>>>
>>> I wonder if your issues is related to the file name used.
>>> Mine are ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on every computer.
>>> It is not clear to me how bzr would know to use your strange
>>> local file name.
>>
>      I use separate keys for different places I need to connect to;
> you do not want to know how long my ~/.ssh/config file is. ;)

>> I too suspect that the non-default file name is the culprit. An entry in
>> ~/.ssh/config may be needed to fix it:
>>
>>
https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/CreatingAnSSHKeyPair#Using_a_custom_S
SH_key_for_Launchpad
>>
>      I feel stupid for not have read that entire page before; I
> missed completely the custom key part. So, as I asked early last
> month, it does/can use ~/.ssh/config after all. That is good to know.
> Thanks for the info! It works now and I am downloading it.

O.K. glad you got it sorted out.

>>>>> Once this is all sorted out, we should look at how to improve the
>>>>> related portion on the wiki getting started page.

I do not think Mauricio's issue requires an edit to the getting
started page, as that type of per service use of ssh keys is fairly
advanced. I am trading off keeping the simplicity of the basic
getting started, verses added detail for more advanced scenarios.

Please feel free to disagree and make changes to the getting started
page. (perhaps one little sentence and the link Gunner gave.)

... Doug