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bug#2837: 23.0.91; tramp: ssh passphrase vs. password
From: |
Trent W. Buck |
Subject: |
bug#2837: 23.0.91; tramp: ssh passphrase vs. password |
Date: |
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:19:57 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:59:59AM +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
> trentbuck@gmail.com writes:
>
> > Just now I tried to open /ssh:dhcp98:/ and it asked me for "dhcp98's
> > password". It *should* have asked me for the passphrase for one of my
> > SSH keys (id_rsa). This either means that the prompt is misleading
> > (i.e. it wants my passphrase) or worse, that it genuinely wants to use
> > password-based authentication (i.e. ignoring my key).
>
> Tramp tries to find out, whether it shall ask for the "password" or the
> "passphrase". It checks ssh's prompt for this.
>
> What does ssh asks you, if you apply "ssh dhcp98" from a shell?
I'm using OpenSSH and an ssh-agent is running, and Emacs can see that
agent. When I have not used ssh-add, I see this:
$ ssh dhcp98
Enter passphrase for key '/home/twb/.ssh/id_rsa':