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Where does the Terminal app store SSH keys (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by baronvonj to c/chromeos

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When you import a private key for an SSH connection in the Terminal app, where are those stored? Can I access them?

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[–] gerbercj 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The key is stored in IndexedDB. You can read more about that at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/storage/indexeddb.

It's not readily available from the Terminal.app UI, but you can get there. Press Ctrl+Shift+I to open the Inspector. Select Application from the top tabs. On the left, under Storage, go to IndexedDB > indexeddb-fs > nassh-rootfs > directory. Look through the list of fullPath entries to find the appropriate entity. In the Value column, locate the data property and click the memory inspector icon to the right of it.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] harsh3466 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Should be in your home directory in the hidden.ssh folder.

To get there:

cd ~/.ssh

[–] baronvonj 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's where applications in the Linux container will look for them. But in the Terminal app. But I'm talking about SSH connections managed by the Terminal app. In the Identity section of the connection, you can click the Import button and get a file chooser to select a private key file (like by going to Linux files, showing hidden files, and picking a file from ~/.ssh). When you do this Import it copies the file somewhere and when you open the connection it uses that copy. I'm looking for where those copies are stored, because I don't have a particular key in my ~/.ssh but I want to use it with an sshfs connection.

[–] harsh3466 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah. Apologies. I misunderstood what you were looking for, and unfortunately don’t have an answer to the question.

[–] baronvonj 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your reply was appreciated none-the-less!

[–] harsh3466 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you. I hope you get a useful answer!