I should perhaps have made clear that the upgrade of my computers was from 10.12.1, not some earlier version. The link below is to a case that someone was having in mid July. My systems were working normally with ssh getting the RSA key passwords from the keychain without prompting as recently as a couple of days ago. Someone else noticed the issue essentially immediately upon upgrading.
It looks to me like the 10.12.2 upgrade (from 10.12.1) broke it. I would note again that I did try the ssh-add -K command, which I think loads the keychain, and that did not produce a persistent fix, although I was able to login to the remote machine once immediately after issuing the ssh-add command. I have not done systematic checks to follow this up yet however. RW > On 14-Dec-2016, at 15:30 , Mike Thornburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016, Brandon Allbery wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Weller, Robert A < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> last night on all of these machines to 10.12.2 >> >> >> That'd be the change I meant. Apple did something with ssh; possibly >> including breaking its keychain integration :/ > > I haven't moved to Sierra, but apparently what they did was to remove the > automatic reloading of your passphrase from the keychain. > > First, even though you may have forgotten your old passphrases, as far as I > know they should still be available in the keychain; I don't believe the > upgrade to Sierra should have deleted any keychain entries. > > In the "Keychain Access" app, look for an entry with a name like "SSH: > /Users/<username>/.ssh/id_rsa" (assuming that is the name of your SSH > keyfile) If you click on "Show password" and authenticate, it should show > the passphrase that you stored in your keychain in an earlier version of > MacOS. > > Here's some more information on what has happened > > <https://openradar.appspot.com/27348363> > > The reports say (I cannot test them because I'm not running Sierra) that you > can reload the identities whose passphrases are stored in your keychain into > your ssh-agent by using the > > ssh-add -A > > command. > > Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
