[PLUG] Restoring ssh-agent with passphrase

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Nov 14 20:29:15 UTC 2018


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, wes wrote:

> Yes, that's what I'm asking. I don't know why ssh and scp would ask for it
> but ssh-add wouldn't.

Wes,

   That makes two of us.

> Wild guess: maybe you now have 2 keys enabled, one with a passphrase and
> one without.

   Not intentionally.

> ... ssh is using the one with the passphrase, and ssh-add is
> using the one without.

   I looked at man ssh-keyscan but that looks for keys on all hosts rather
than telling me what keys are in the agent. If there's a ssh-add switch that
allows me to force entering my passphrase in the agent I did not recognize
when reading the man page.

Thanks,

Rich





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