That is odd. Can you use ssh-agent to at least cache your passphrase, to avoid having to provide it except for the first time? This sounds like something is misconfigured on your home machine but I couldn't tell you what as I've never run into this myself...
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Paul Spicer <[email protected]> wrote: > The servers on site simply use password authentication. The only machine I > ever interact with that requires a key is my server at home. When I ssh into > my home machine, I get only the prompt for the passphrase I created for my > key and boom, I'm in. When I connect to one of the local machines, I'm > forced to first enter the passphrase to my id_rsa key THEN the password for > the server. > > I hope that is a little clearer... I don't know how else to explain. > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:30 PM, A.Padilla <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When creating the keys, did you leave the pass phrase field blank? >> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Paul Spicer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > My linux machine at home is setup to only allow key authentication. I >> have a >> > copy of that key on my machine at work and it works great. However, when >> I >> > try to connect to one of the servers here on site that aren't setup for >> key >> > authentication, I'm forced to enter my passphrase every time before I can >> > enter the password. Is there any way around this? It even does it when I >> try >> > to connect to network resources through nautilus. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
