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Is there a way to import existing SSH keys to Seahorse?

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Export and Import Keys

Seahorse can import SSH keys from the clipboard or a key file. Seahorse allows users to specify a SSH key file. Seahorse does not change the content of imported files, instead, Seahorse copies the imported files to ~/.ssh with non-duplicated file names.

Seahorse can export public key or private key info to new files. Seahorse can copy public key info to the clipboard.

open seahorse -> file - import.

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Doesn't work for me on Ubuntu 10.10. It's as if Seahorse ignores the SSH keys. – Christopher Parker Feb 10 '11 at 23:35
Error while importing private and public keys: "file:///home/manager/Desktop/id_rsa: Invalid file format". Any thoughts?.. – aneeshep Feb 16 '11 at 5:06
it seems a bug in seahorse but you can copy your private key to .ssh/id_rsa and your public key to .ssh/id_rsa.pub, and it appeared in seahorse. – hhlp Feb 16 '11 at 16:51
Same problem: "Invalid file format". Even tried copying the key and doing Edit->Paste Keys, as described in the Seahorse help. No luck. – Patrick White Nov 25 '11 at 14:13
I ran into the "Invalid file format" error, too. However, creating an id_rsa.pub file in the same folder fixed it. You can do this with ssh-keygen -y. – afit Apr 9 '12 at 9:15

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