Re: guest agent public ssh key add/remove support?

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Dienstag, 18. August 2020 15:25:56 CEST David Vossel wrote:
> - Guest Agent SSH add/remove Support?
> 
> As a PoC, I cobbled together some guest agent exec and file write client
> commands which can technically achieve the desired result of
> adding/removing entries in a /home/<user>/.ssh/authorized_keys file. It's a
> little unwieldy, but it works.
> 
> This got me thinking, an officially supported guest agent api for this ssh
> key management would be really nice. There's already a somewhat related
> precedent with the "guest-set-user-password" guest agent command.
> 
> So here's the question. What would you all think about the guest agent API
> being expanded with new commands for adding/removing ssh public keys from
> authorized_keys files?

There are two pass-through file systems in QEMU: 9pfs and virtiofs. Don't you 
think they would be sufficient for the use case?

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck