SSH key question

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:46:33AM -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> 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.
> 
When you run ssh-key-gen do you provide a passphrase for the generated
key or do you just hit return when asked?  If you just hit return then
the key is 'passphraseless'.

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Chris Green