From d188939b14073668e8c195b7155ce4543a8d5936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "C. R. Oldham" <cr@saltstack.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:07:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Be more liberal about the format of the key we are looking
 for.  (e.g. accept 'ssh-rsa AAB3NzaC... comment' as well as just
 'AAB3NzaC...')

---
 salt/states/ssh_auth.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/salt/states/ssh_auth.py b/salt/states/ssh_auth.py
index 31c25434e3..bc6a327b73 100644
--- a/salt/states/ssh_auth.py
+++ b/salt/states/ssh_auth.py
@@ -269,7 +269,11 @@ def absent(name,
            'comment': ''}
 
     # Get just the key
-    name = name.split(' ')[0]
+    keydata = name.split(' ')
+    if len(keydata) > 1:
+        name = keydata[1]
+    else:
+        name = keydata[0]
 
     if __opts__['test']:
         check = __salt__['ssh.check_key'](