ssh no password problem

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 09:30 -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:

> Perhaps the issue is with the steps you took to generate the key.  The
> message you show above does not show that ssh is prompting you for
> your login password, it shows that it's prompting you for your key
> password.
> 
> Note that you can generate your dsa keys either with or without a
> password.  I always generate mine without a password, so I don't know
> what I would see with the password.  But I do know that when I don't
> have a key set up at all, I get a different password prompt than the
> one you show.

Looking at an encrypted id_dsa file will tell you if the key is
encrypted or not.  You will see header lines like:

Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,6B6CB0E67B37AC61

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