Logging through ssh without passphrase

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 5 October 2016 at 07:40, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 04/10/16 11:30, Julia Palandri wrote:
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>
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> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> 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>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>

Running ssh with -v (or -vv or -vvv) can make this sort of thing clearer.

Cheers,
mwh
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