openssh unix dev - May 2001 - Change in behavior from 2.5p2 to 2.9p1

Under 2.5p2, if I ssh'd back to myself I would get a prompt asking for my 
passphrase, and if that was incorrect it would then ask for my password. 
Assuming I had a authorized_keys file with my identity.pub in it.
Under 2.9.p1 it goes straight to enter password instead of asking for my 
passphrase.
This wouldn't be a problem except that when I have
"PasswordAuthentication
no" I get the following error:
Permission denied (publickey)

Can someone please help me understand why this behavior changed and how to 
fix it if possible. It looks like something to do with using ssh2 from 
looking at the verbose output.


Thanks
Aaron

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:59:22PM -0400, Aaron Dudek
wrote:
> Under 2.5p2, if I ssh'd back to myself I would get a prompt asking for
my
> passphrase, and if that was incorrect it would then ask for my password. 
> Assuming I had a authorized_keys file with my identity.pub in it.
> Under 2.9.p1 it goes straight to enter password instead of asking for my 
> passphrase.
> This wouldn't be a problem except that when I have
"PasswordAuthentication
> no" I get the following error:
> Permission denied (publickey)
> 
> Can someone please help me understand why this behavior changed and how to 
> fix it if possible. It looks like something to do with using ssh2 from 
> looking at the verbose output.
Please be aware that 2.9p1 will do SSH-2 by default. You need another set
of keys with SSH-2. These are usually called id_rsa[.pub] and/or id_dsa[.pub]
and the public keys are now in authorized_keys2.

You cannot use the old keys for the new protocol.
Use "ssh-keygen -t rsa" to generate a RSA key for protocol 2.

Best regards,
	Lutz
-- 
Lutz Jaenicke                             Lutz.Jaenicke at aet.TU-Cottbus.DE
BTU Cottbus               http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/
Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik                  Tel. +49 355 69-4129
Universitaetsplatz 3-4, D-03044 Cottbus              Fax. +49 355 69-4153

Thanks for the help. That is what I suspected. I also took a wild guess and 
created a authorized_keys2 file with the id_rsa.pub key in it. And now it 
works they way it was under ssh1. It prompts me for the passphase and if 
that doesn't work then asks me for the password.

Aaron