Re: ssh always asks for passphrase?

That is odd. Can you use ssh-agent to at least cache your passphrase,
to avoid having to provide it except for the first time? This sounds
like something is misconfigured on your home machine but I couldn't
tell you what as I've never run into this myself...


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Paul Spicer <[email protected]> wrote:
> The servers on site simply use password authentication. The only machine I
> ever interact with that requires a key is my server at home. When I ssh into
> my home machine, I get only the prompt for the passphrase I created for my
> key and boom, I'm in. When I connect to one of the local machines, I'm
> forced to first enter the passphrase to my id_rsa key THEN the password for
> the server.
>
> I hope that is a little clearer... I don't know how else to explain.
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:30 PM, A.Padilla <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> When creating the keys, did you leave the pass phrase field blank?
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Paul Spicer <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > My linux machine at home is setup to only allow key authentication. I
>> have a
>> > copy of that key on my machine at work and it works great. However, when
>> I
>> > try to connect to one of the servers here on site that aren't setup for
>> key
>> > authentication, I'm forced to enter my passphrase every time before I can
>> > enter the password. Is there any way around this? It even does it when I
>> try
>> > to connect to network resources through nautilus.
>> >
>>
>

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