SSH Terminal in iOS App
One of the things that is quite nice about the SSH feature of 1Password 8 is that it has made my SSH keys completely mobile; they're the same keys on all the Macs I use now. The keys are shown in the iOS app as well, though just as inert items. A feature that may be worth adding to the iOS app someday is an SSH terminal similar to how there is a web browser built into the app.
With such a feature we can jump into an SSH session to anything our keys are authorized on when away from our desks. Many of the hosts I deal with are configured to disallow password authentication, forcing use of public keys for security purposes. This makes it impossible to log in from anywhere that does not already have an authorized key unless I first add an authorized key from a previously authorized system. 1Password SSH means that technically my iOS devices do now have that authorized key as well. If something goes wrong on a host while I'm running errands, for example, with such a feature I could still jump into hosts to see what is up, which is something I cannot do at the moment.
I just feel that a future feature in the iOS app built on top of the SSH feature in 1Password 8 that is an SSH terminal could be something worth considering.
1Password Version: 8.6.0-26.BETA
Extension Version: 2.2.3
OS Version: macOS 12.2.1
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Yeah, it would. But still worth a suggestion to the 1Password devs.
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The main advantage of a built-in feature is that when keys change we wouldn't have to update them manually in the other SSH apps on our iOS devices. But yes, most of the time, copying the keys are sufficient.
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@XIII Is there some special way to use the clipboard? I go to my key in 1Password and choose copy on the private key item. However when I choose "Import from clipboard" in Blink, it says "Error parsing private key. invalid format".
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@dummptyhummpty I might have actually done that before 1Password started supporting SSH...
I'm pretty sure I stored the private key in OpenSSH format myself, but I believe 1Password uses a different format. If that's true it's not just copy/paste; you would first have to convert the key 😢
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