[Debian-zh-dev] Bug#1082492: qterm don't support OpenSSH-specific format private keys when use ssh login

[xiao sheng wen]

Package: qterm
Version: 1:0.8.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: Xiaoqiang Wang <xiaoqiangwang at gmail.com>, atzlinux at sina.com

Hi,
   We normal use ssh-keygen generate private key for ssh login.
The ssh-keygen will by default write keys in an OpenSSH-specific format now.

The first line of OpenSSH-specific format private key file is:

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

But qterm don't support OpenSSH-specific format private keys for login,
qterm only support the previously-used PEM format private keys.

Although we can get PEM format private keys using the following way:

From man ssh-keygen:

     It is still possible for ssh-keygen to write the previously-used PEM format private keys us‐
     ing the -m flag.  This may be used when generating new keys, and existing new-format keys
     may be converted using this option in conjunction with the -p (change passphrase) flag.

But PEM format is old and no default format now,
so I hope qterm can support OpenSSH-specific format private keys.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Release:	12.7.1
Codename:	bookworm
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-rt-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages qterm depends on:
ii  libc6                2.36-9+deb12u8
ii  libgcc-s1            12.2.0-14
ii  libqt5core5a         5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii  libqt5gui5           5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii  libqt5multimedia5    5.15.8-2
ii  libqt5network5       5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii  libqt5printsupport5  5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii  libqt5script5        5.15.8+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5widgets5       5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii  libqt5xml5           5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2
ii  libssl3              3.0.14-1~deb12u2
ii  libstdc++6           12.2.0-14

qterm recommends no packages.

qterm suggests no packages.

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