SSH keys broken?

[Michael Spahn]

  Am 30.09.2010 16:46, schrieb Steven Haigh:
> On 01/10/10 00:33, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 09:16 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 00:17, Steven Haigh<netwiz at crc.id.au>   wrote:
>>>> In the last couple of days I've noticed that any host that I usually
>>>> connect to via SSH with a shared key authentication still prompts me for
>>>> a password.
>>> 1) Are permissions ok? Home directory needs to be 755 and .ssh needs
>>> to be 700. Second check to see if something changed the attrs on the
>>> directories or files
>>>
>>> lsattr .ssh
>>> ls -Z .ssh
>> Steven, are they actually prompting for your *login password*, or is it
>> the passphrase for your ssh key? The two would indicate different
>> problems.
> Ahhh - Interesting. Instead of ~/.ssh/identity being used, I needed to
> symlink ~/.ssh/id_rsa to ~/.ssh/identity.
>
> The weird thing is that my setup of using ~/.ssh/identity has worked
> perfectly for many years - but has only now stopped.
>
> Has this been a change in ssh or something else I'm not aware of?
>
I think it's just the server configuration of Fedora, I could connect 
with Fedora to my Debian server using keyfiles.

Maybe we should enable the keyfiles in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config by default?