[WHIRR-160] Improve SSH key diagnostics

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Andrei Savu
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 10/Dec/10 20:00
• Updated: 15/Dec/10 08:51
• Resolved: 15/Dec/10 04:53

Description

This would reduce the number of support issues that trip up users.

We already check that the private and public keys both exist (but I don't think we have a unit test for that).

In addition, we should

• Check that the private key is passwordless (see how at http://incubator.apache.org/whirr/faq.html#Can_I_specify_my_own_private_key).
• Check that the private and public keys belong to the same pair (via, e.g. http://s.apache.org/MNY).

Issue Links

• is required by: WHIRR-161 Check that both SSH keys belong to the same pair