Jason McCormick
2003-May-12 19:26 UTC
ssh-agent asking for passphrase on non-keyed connections
I'm running into some odd behavior that I can't figure out that I'm hoping someone can help me with. After years of SSH usage, I've decided to exchange one laziness for another and use ssh-agent. However I'm running into an odd instance where ssh is asking for the passphrase to my key stored in ~/.ssh/id_dsa when attempting to connect to a machine with nothing in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and the key properly active in ssh-agent. For example: [user at host ~]$ ssh user at foo Last login: Mon May 12 15:06:33 2003 from host [user at foo ~]$ Never asks for a passphrase and I'm logged in perfectly. However now if I ssh to root on the same box (with no /root/.ssh/authorized_keys) I'm prompted for the passphrase for my key and then prompted for the password for root. For example: [user at host ~]$ ssh root at foo Enter passphrase for key '/home/user/.ssh/id_dsa': root at foo's password: Last login: Tue May 6 11:44:59 2003 from host [root at foo root]# After talking with Ben, I was under the impression that the correct/desired behavior is that I would only be prompted for the root at foo password. Any thoughts or suggestions on this? I didn't see anything in the FAQ or mailing list about this so I'm assuming I have a configuration glitch somewhere. -- Jason
Jason McCormick
2003-May-24 04:08 UTC
ssh-agent asking for passphrase on non-keyed connections
I'm running into some odd behavior that I can't figure out that I'm hoping someone can help me with. After years of SSH usage, I've decided to exchange one laziness for another and use ssh-agent. However I'm running into an odd instance where ssh is asking for the passphrase to my key stored in ~/.ssh/id_dsa when attempting to connect to a machine with nothing in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and the key properly active in ssh-agent. For example: [user at host ~]$ ssh user at foo Last login: Mon May 12 15:06:33 2003 from host [user at foo ~]$ Never asks for a passphrase and I'm logged in perfectly. However now if I ssh to root on the same box (with no /root/.ssh/authorized_keys) I'm prompted for the passphrase for my key and then prompted for the password for root. For example: [user at host ~]$ ssh root at foo Enter passphrase for key '/home/user/.ssh/id_dsa': root at foo's password: Last login: Tue May 6 11:44:59 2003 from host [root at foo root]# After talking with Ben, I was under the impression that the correct/desired behavior is that I would only be prompted for the root at foo password. Any thoughts or suggestions on this? I didn't see anything in the FAQ or mailing list about this so I'm assuming I have a configuration glitch somewhere. -- Jason McCormick jason at devrandom.org GPG Key: http://www.devrandom.org/gpgkey.php GPG Fingerprint: 66C5 2B15 3E34 2B5E 5321 6147 303A DCE6 0A74 A19C