[Bug 221878] Re: [Hardy] annoying and useless prompts

2008-04-26 Thread David Simner
Hmmm. Yeh, I've played a little more with this, and this always triggers the problem. So try this to reproduce the problem: (0) have a passphrase protected RSA key pair stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (1) logout of Gnome (2) Ctrl-Alt-1 (3) login to the terminal (4) delete the ~/.s

[Bug 221878] Re: [Hardy] annoying and useless prompts

2008-04-25 Thread Matt H
Hi again. I've just tested again, logging into localhost, with and without myself in authorised keys and I observed the correct behaviour. Can you enable a server on your own box and try logging into that? Few things to try: Try touching the authorised keys file. disable gnome-keyring as the ssh

[Bug 221878] Re: [Hardy] annoying and useless prompts

2008-04-25 Thread David Simner
This is with a fresh install of hardy. Hmm. I'm definitely being prompted for the key password regardless of whether the server accepts it. In fact the server doesn't accept any authorized keys because the authorized_keys file doesn't exist there. I should say this is just after logging in on t

[Bug 221878] Re: [Hardy] annoying and useless prompts

2008-04-25 Thread Matt H
If both pubkeyauthentication and passwordauthentication are enabled on the remote server , the ssh client will attempt the more secure method first. If you do not want this, disable pubkey authentication in your ssh client config and then pubkey authentication will be tried only if you enable it

[Bug 221878] Re: [Hardy] annoying and useless prompts

2008-04-25 Thread Matt H
This might be relevant: I am using seahorse-agent with ssh-agent rather than gnome-keyring- daemon. -- [Hardy] annoying and useless prompts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221878 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu