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jc.parsers.authorized_keys

jc - JSON Convert ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file parser

Comment lines (starting with #) and blank lines are ignored.

Usage (cli):

$ cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys | jc --authorized-keys

Usage (module):

import jc
result = jc.parse('authorized_keys', authorized_keys_file_output)

Schema:

[
  {
    "type":            string,
    "key":             string,
    "options": [
                       string
    ],
    "comment":         string/null
  }
]

Examples:

$ cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys | jc --authorized-keys -p
[
  {
    "options": [],
    "type": "ssh-ed25519",
    "key": "AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHghxye3Vq/KsZ0sFBplo+n3lp/BWBJyDG2VzlIqynfX",
    "comment": "bob@laptop"
  },
  {
    "options": [
      "command=\"/usr/bin/rsync --server\"",
      "no-port-forwarding"
    ],
    "type": "ssh-rsa",
    "key": "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDg0BAJ5uRurdBc7//UY1w4p7cuc8w...",
    "comment": null
  }
]

$ cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys | jc --authorized-keys -p -r
[
  {
    "options": null,
    "type": "ssh-ed25519",
    "key": "AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHghxye3Vq/KsZ0sFBplo+n3lp/BWBJyDG2VzlIqynfX",
    "comment": "bob@laptop"
  },
  {
    "options": "command=\"/usr/bin/rsync --server\",no-port-forwarding",
    "type": "ssh-rsa",
    "key": "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDg0BAJ5uRurdBc7//UY1w4p7cuc8w...",
    "comment": null
  }
]

parse

def parse(data, raw=False, quiet=False)

Main text parsing function

Parameters:

data:        (string)  text data to parse
raw:         (boolean) unprocessed output if True
quiet:       (boolean) suppress warning messages if True

Returns:

List of Dictionaries. Raw or processed structured data.

Parser Information

Compatibility: linux, darwin, cygwin, win32, aix, freebsd

Source: jc/parsers/authorized_keys.py

Version 1.0 by Kelly Brazil (kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com)