Bug 1274245 - gnupg 2.1.9-1 breaks SSH authentication with gpg-agent
Summary: gnupg 2.1.9-1 breaks SSH authentication with gpg-agent
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnupg2
Version: 22
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-22 11:00 UTC by Christian Heimes
Modified: 2016-07-19 19:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 19:58:08 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Christian Heimes 2015-10-22 11:00:07 UTC
Description of problem:

Today I upgraded GnuPG 2 to 2.1.9-1.f22. Since the update and a reboot I can no longer use gpg-agent for SSH autentication. Neither my OpenPGP smartcard (YubiKey NEO) nor my file-based keys are working. ssh-add -L also no longer shows any keys, too. A downgrade to 2.1.2 and restart of gpg-agent solved the issue.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

broken: gnupg2-2.1.9-1.fc22.x86_64
works: gnupg2-2.1.2-2.fc22.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow any tutorial like https://inuits.eu/blog/ssh-authentication-your-pgp-key to create an authentication key and use it for SSH
2. run ssh-add -L

Actual results:

$ ssh-add -L
error fetching identities for protocol 1: agent refused operation
error fetching identities for protocol 2: invalid format
The agent has no identities.


Expected results:

$ ssh-add -L
error fetching identities for protocol 1: agent refused operation
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1... cardno:000603XXXXXX

Additional info:

Comment 1 Christine Dodrill 2015-11-10 19:16:27 UTC
I just ran into this today with a slightly different output:

➜  ssh-add -l
error fetching identities for protocol 1: agent refused operation
2048 SHA256:PZw/8LniQjqouqoVwPZtlyD7MMwS2xV34MO3DC/tMPk /home/xena/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA)
2048 SHA256:rzU+vEdaHt7giRtkrziQwBwxY/Z+TX/a1ck8cJWcEfk rsa w/o comment (RSA)

I did not get the "invalid format" entry for SSH keys, but like you I don't have the PGP smartcard showing up as an SSH key.

Comment 2 Christine Dodrill 2015-11-10 19:30:31 UTC
Downgrading gnupg to the older version (gnupg2-2.1.2-2.fc22.x86_64) fixes this.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 19:58:08 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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