SSH key question

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:24 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
:
> I'm not sure if I'm teaching grandmother to suck eggs, but still...
>
> Have you got an agent running on one system and not the other?
>
> Were you generating passphraseless keys with ssh-genkey or were you
> using a passphrase?  If they were passphraseless then I'm stumped but
> if they have passphrases then maybe you have the passphrase stored (in
> an agent) on your desktop but not on your laptop.
>
> ... or I suppose you might have 'only allow password authentication'
> set up on your desktop so passphrases don't work (unlikely I think).
>
I have an ssh server running on both machines, no passphrase.  I have
not changed any settings, and don't recognize all of the above.

Thanks.

Mark