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I... what? I've never had my ssh key expire, because that's just not a thing. If you don't use it, then I think Github drops it after a year and requires you to

I... what? I've never had my ssh key expire, because that's just not a thing. If you don't use it, then I think Github drops it after a year and requires you to add it again, but it's really not hard to put it back in in that case. Also why on earth would I want to type a password every time I do something, even when it was an option I usually cancelled my push and set up an ssh key.

jfrunyon 5y ago
> [SSH key expiry is] just not a thing It is, actually. https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/ssh-keygen.1.html https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/ssh-keygen.... look for "-V validity_interval". Admittedly that's on the certificate rather than the key itself (yes, SSH keys can have proper CA infrastructure!) and not something most people have to worry about. > Github drops it after a year and requires you to add it again That's pretty clearly what GP was referring to. And I completely understand how annoying it would be, too. Consider this, you might not even use it again before it expires again, but if you don't re-add it promptly you probably won't be able to figure out why stuff isn't working the next time you do use it...