SSH keys broken?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 20:02 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> to., 30.09.2010 kl. 19.57 +0200, skrev 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?
> 
> Could it be related to the problem I see here?
> 
> [kmaraas at e4300 ~]$ ssh-add
> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

also check if you're getting a crash on boot from gnome-keyring. I was,
until I updated today, and it was preventing password/phrase saving in
gnome-keyring from working.
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