hbons/SparkleShare — Issue #522: Unknowingly changes my public and private key!
Author: danfischer87
Created: 2012-01-11 21:26:13+00:00
State: open

When I set it up, it generated a public key in my sparkleshare folder, which I then added to my github account. What I didn't immediately realize is that it added something to my .ssh/config file so that it is no longer pointing to my old public and private keys. So all of a sudden I couldn't ssh into anything or use my github repos. For some of my coworkers it copied their existing keys into a sparkleshare folder, but it created a new one for me. It removed the identity for my old ones.

Both of these implementations are weird to me. Why didn't they just use our existing keys?

Anyway, to fix this I replicated what it did on my coworkers' computers and copied my old keys into where the new sparkleshare keys were generated. Now I can use sparkleshare and still use my old keys.

Alternatively, I could have just run "ssh-add" in the terminal and then both of them would exist.