I recently had the problem that I had on a system the private part
of the SSH key but its public part got lost.
Generating a new key pair wasn't possible as the public part
was still installed on other systems for proper public key
authentication and I could not change this.
So, I needed to restore the public part of the SSH key. After a bit
of using my favourite search engine, I noticed that it is way easier
than I expected:
ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
This command will print the public part of the key in ...
We all know the fancy bugtrackers of the various distributions. I don't have a doubt
the idea behind was good and for distribution specific bugs they are great.
But when it comes to concrete application specific bugs, it often happens that
users report them to the distribution bugtrackers instead of to the specific
software project. At this point, it depends how deep is the relation between the
distribution packager of the relevant software package and the upstream authors.
Based on my personal experience, the conversation between down- and upstream is not
always as good and intensive as it should ...