Something sounds suspicious or pieces to the puzzle are missing. Changing the passphrase on a private key shouldn't change anything on the public key side. Could it be that someone slipped a different public key in your authorized_keys file? - Robert
On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 12:15 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > I assume that when I want to log into my web site, and am asked for my > pass > > phrase, it's my local host asking for the pass phrase. Is this correct? > > Problem solved. Why the original pass phrase stopped working remains > unknown. But I changed my pass phrase and forgot to change the public key > at > my web site's host. Did that and I can once again log in. > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > Rich >