On 6/1/20 1:53 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Hi -
~/.ssh/known_hosts exists and ~/.ssh is rwx only by the owner.
Everything works fine if I add my key by running ssh-add. What's
not so great is the errors I get when I forget to do that: "agent
refused operation?"
Yeah, there is something odd on your side. Maybe your ssh client is
unable to find the right private key - maybe it's named non-default?
If so, add it to your .ssh/config
Host gcc.gnu.org sourceware.org
IdentifyFile ~/.ssh/id_XYZ
It just feels like too much of a coincidence that I started having
these problems only after the recent server upgrade. [...]
I'm afraid it does look like a coincidence.
So it sounds like you wouldn't expect the "agent refused operation"
error either, and it's not just a poor error message that I should
learn to live with. That makes me think I should try to figure out
what's wrong. I think the ~/.ssh/ contents are pretty standard:
$ ls -l ~/.ssh/
total 32
-rw-------. 1 msebor msebor 998 Jan 3 2019 authorized_keys
-rw-------. 1 msebor msebor 1381 Jan 3 2019 id_dsa
-rw-------. 1 msebor msebor 603 Jan 3 2019 id_dsa.pub
-rw-------. 1 msebor msebor 1876 Dec 18 2018 id_rsa
-rw-------. 1 msebor msebor 395 Dec 18 2018 id_rsa.pub
-rw-------. 1 msebor msebor 187 Jun 1 13:41 known_hosts
I'm not a Git or ssh power user so I don't change default settings
unless I absolutely have to. It's also been a while since I updated
my workstation so I can't think of anything that could be behind this.
Do you have any suggestions what else to look at?
Martin
