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Feature: Add tab for SSH Keys

Open NetworkJack2 opened this issue 6 months ago • 2 comments

The problem

Taking inventory of what SSH keys are available for use is not straight forward.

Requested Solution

Add tab next to "Archives" entitled "SSH Keys" to show what SSH keys are available for use, along with key-length and type. add small description about how they are discovered/loaded.

You should be able to copy the public keys from the GUI with some sort of pop up window confirming it was copied to the clipboard.

This is not straight forward to a regular user of OpenSSH that uses ssh-keys on a regular basis this is NOT intuitive.

ideally, Vorta should use its own ssh keys in its own directory, and mange them itself with add/remove buttons.

Alternatives

Additional context

with OpenSSH, you can put your SSH keys anywhere, most people use ~/.ssh/

Many people use subdirectories for different vendors to keep things better organized. with the OpenSSH config the item IdentityFile lets you put the keys anywhere, and for hosts or glob match for hosts you explicitly add hosts at config time.

Vorta just reads all keys in ~/.ssh/ without really explaining they do this, and doesn't give you a list of keys actually loaded. This threw me for a loop when I tried

mkdir -p ~/.ssh/BorgBase
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/BorgBase/id_ed25519

then it did not work.

NetworkJack2 avatar Jul 16 '25 23:07 NetworkJack2

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

github-actions[bot] avatar Nov 18 '25 02:11 github-actions[bot]

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still interested in this as a feature

NetworkJack2 avatar Nov 18 '25 19:11 NetworkJack2