Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă, on 2018-11-30 : > On 27-11-2018, at 13h 33'55", Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote about "issues with > stretch, part 1 of many" [...] > > The first question I want to ask relates to ssh, ssh-ask and > > ssh-agent. When I ssh to another computer I am asked "Allow use of key > > id_rsa? Key fingerprint ..." [...] > > Thank you, Étienne. I am aware of all that. I talk here about the > differences between stretch and all previous Debian releases. All > works well before stretch.
Good Day Ionel, I haven't checked in Debian 8 how the thing behaves, but it sounds like a change of default value in a configuration option. More specifically, I have come to find this entry in ssh_config manual which looks like affecting most entities you mentioned in your initial email. ssh_config(5): > AddKeysToAgent > Specifies whether keys should be automatically > added to a running ssh-agent(1). If this option > is set to yes and a key is loaded from a file, the > key and its passphrase are added to the agent with > the default lifetime, as if by ssh-add(1). If > this option is set to ask, ssh(1) will require > confirmation using the SSH_ASKPASS program before > adding a key (see ssh-add(1) for details). If > this option is set to confirm, each use of the key > must be confirmed, as if the -c option was speci‐ > fied to ssh-add(1). If this option is set to no, > no keys are added to the agent. The argument must > be yes, confirm, ask, or no (the default). I wonder if setting this in you ssh_config file would help bringing back the behaviour you expect: AddKeysToAgent yes Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org>