Private key (-i key_file) percent_expand problem when path contains percent sign (%)

[Damien Miller]

Hi,

Could you please file a bug at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/ ?
We should handle this case a bit better...

-d

On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Mikael Nordfeldth wrote:

> I have problems ssh:ing with my private key when the user's.
> 
> I run Debian Jessie, with (other than whatever Debian has done)
> non-modified OpenSSH:
> 
>    $ aptitude show openssh-client |grep Version:
>    Version: 1:6.7p1-3
> 
> The problem is I get this fatal error without a remote connection being
> made:
> 
>    $ ssh user at example.com
>    percent_expand: unknown key %/
> 
> My $HOME is "/srv/www/example.com/%".
> 
> If I give the full path to the directory with the -i parameter I get the
> same error. If I provide a relative path, with `pwd` equal to $HOME, it
> works just fine:
> 
>    $ pwd
>    /srv/www/kulturhusfestivalen.se/%
>    $ ssh -i /srv/www/example.com/%/.ssh/id_rsa user at example.com
>    percent_expand: unknown key %/
>    $ ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa user at example.com
>    The authenticity of host 'example.com'...
> 
> So it boils down to the -i parsing with a percent sign (which doesn't
> expand) it seems. Anyone else experiencing this or can reproduce it?
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Nordfeldth
> XMPP/mail: mmn at hethane.se
> OpenPGP fpr: AE68 9813 0B7C FCE3 B2FA  727B C7CE 635B B52E 9B31
> 
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