pubkey_filter {sship}

Filter ssh public keys by type

Description

From a vector of ssh public keys, return those that are of a given type.

Usage

pubkey_filter(keys, type)

Arguments

keys

Vector of strings representing ssh public keys.

type

Character string defining the ssh public key type that will pass the filter. Relevant values are strings returned by attributes(openssl::read_pubkey(pubkey))$class[2], e.g. "rsa" and "dsa".

Value

A vector of strings representing (filtered) public keys.

Examples

## make ssh public key strings
rsa_pubkey <- openssl::write_ssh(openssl::rsa_keygen()$pubkey)
dsa_pubkey <- openssl::write_ssh(openssl::dsa_keygen()$pubkey)

## filter keys by type
pubkey <- pubkey_filter(c(rsa_pubkey, dsa_pubkey), "rsa")
identical(pubkey, rsa_pubkey)