Logging through ssh without passphrase

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 4 18:40:30 UTC 2016


On 04/10/16 11:30, Julia Palandri wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:mark at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 04/10/16 10:59, Julia Palandri wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Loïc Minier
>>     <loic.minier at ubuntu.com <mailto:loic.minier at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         perhaps you have another passwordless key that was tried next
>>
>>
>>     I checked and all my keys uploaded to launchpad say "Proc-Type:
>>     4,ENCRYPTED" (which I understand mean have passphrase?)
>
>     I take it you are specifically checking the private key component
>     ("id_rsa") on your local disk, not talking about the stuff you
>     pasted into the LP web page (which should be "id_rsa.pub")?
>
>
> You're correct. The .pub part doesn't have this kind of info, afaik

OK. I suspect that you have a desktop key agent which has the passphrase
of one of your keys cached, and when you cancelled the initial
passphrase request ssh rolled over to that key.

Mark
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