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jaap-jan
ca07d63585
An import that recorded a key path and left every host asking for a password was an import whose result did not connect. The answer to that was a manual paste per key, which is the sort of thing people do once and then stop importing. So there is a tick, and it starts off. With it off nothing changes: an IdentityFile becomes a note and the host asks for a password. With it on, IMPORT reads each host's first IdentityFile out of ~/.ssh, stores it in the vault encrypted like any other key, and binds the host to it. Three things about how it is drawn are load-bearing rather than tidy. It is a default nobody arrives at by accident. The sentence beside it names the directory rather than saying "your keys", because that is what somebody is agreeing to. And nothing is read during SCAN — tick it, read what it says, untick it, and no private key has been opened. This is the only place the application opens key material out of a directory the user did not point at file by file, and the whole of what makes that acceptable is that it took a deliberate press. One vault key per file, however many entries named it: an ssh_config pointing twelve hosts at one id_ed25519 is the ordinary shape, and twelve copies would be twelve things to rotate and eleven to forget. A file whose material is already in the keychain is bound to rather than stored again, which is what makes running the import twice harmless. What cannot be read off a disk is a passphrase, so a protected key arrives without one — and the report under the button names those files rather than leaving a host to fail at connect time with a message about a malformed key. Telling them apart means decoding for OpenSSH's own container, whose cipher name is the first field inside the base64 rather than anything in the armour, and that is the format ssh-keygen has written by default for years. The 88 base64 characters it decodes need 66 bytes, not 64: with the smaller span every protected key came back unprotected, which the tests now pin. A path that is not on this machine leaves its host imported and unbound, exactly as it would have been with the tick off, and is named in the same report. A config carried from another machine is the ordinary case, not an error.