If both pubkeyauthentication and passwordauthentication are enabled on the remote server , the ssh client will attempt the more secure method first. If you do not want this, disable pubkey authentication in your ssh client config and then pubkey authentication will be tried only if you enable it at the command line.
Remove the package ssh-askpass-gnome and you will be prompted at the terminal rather than in gnome. I am unable to reproduce your problem. I set my server to have both pubkey authentication and password authentication enabled. On attempting to connect from afar, my key password was asked for if and only if my public key was authorized on the server. What is in your sshd and ssh config? -- [Hardy] annoying and useless prompts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221878 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
