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Enrique Moreno Tent
Asked: 2018-05-25 05:58:29 +0800 CST

Snap packages can't use my SSH key

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I have installed GitKraken, a git client, through snappy.

$ sudo snap install gitkrakren

But when I try to push to my repository, I get an authentication error. This was weird since I can make the push from the terminal without problems. So I went into the configuration and tried to manually set the public and private key. But when I tried to open the folder ~/.ssh I got a message that it was forbidden.

  • Could it be that GitKraken uses its own SSH keys, since it is a snap package?
  • Is there a way to make it use my own keys or am I forced to use the SSH keys from the snap package?
  • If it is the last case, where can I find them?
ssh snap

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It is intentional that by default confined snaps cannot access your ssh keys (or indeed anything in hidden folders/files in your home directory) for good reason. You don't want a random application grabbing your keys and sending them to a remote server.

    You can however copy all or some of your keys from ~/.ssh into the home directory the snap sees under ~/snap/gitkraken/current/

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  2. Since there is a reason NOT to allow snaps to access your .ssh directly I would advice to copy only PUB key to a 'readable' folder.

    I created a second .sshpub folder and copied over only the public keys to it, not the private ones. 

    mkdir ~/.sshpub
cp ~/.ssh/*.pub ~/.sshpub
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