[Kde-scm-interest] Multiple ssh-keys with svn+ssh?

[Sitaram Chamarty]

2010/6/26 Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic at gmx.net>:
>> [: Andreas Pakulat :]
>> I know not exactly the right list, but does svn+ssh support usage of
>> different ssh-keys? I'm working from 3 machines currently and all 3 of
>> them have different private/public key-pairs...
>
> Maybe I didn't understand some policy matters, but... isn't the key supposed
> to be linked to your persona, and not to the machines on which you are
> working?
>
> For example, I too am committing from two machines regularly, and a third
> occasionaly; on all of them I have copied my designated "VCS key", and set
> in ~/.ssh/config to use that one when accessing the KDE repository server.

A lot of people dont like doing that.  One (only moderately
far-fetched) scenario due to which I prefer having my keys be
different on each machine is this: suppose my laptop is stolen *and*
broken into (due to physical access and un-encrypted home partition
let's say).  When I discover that, I have to not only pull those keys
out from all the servers to which that private key gives access,
(which I have to do in any case) but I now additionally have to
regenerate new keys on all the other machines and submit them.

If the server, instead, could accept multiple ssh keys and still be
able to associate all of them with the user "sitaram", that is a lot
more flexible.

Regards,

Sitaram