SSH keys broken?

[Michael Spahn]

  Am 30.09.2010 20:02, schrieb Kjartan Maraas:
> 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.
>
> Cheers
> Kjartan
>
I don't think so, keyfile login is working, maybe they changed something 
while parsing the config file, and disabled some default settings like 
keyfile login etc.

I don't know what happened there, please check possible errors with -v.