ssh & passphrases on FC2

[William Hooper]

Bill Gradwohl said:
> William Hooper wrote:
>
>
>> And you are using the -i option to tell ssh what key to use, right?
>> Perhaps you can provide us with some ssh debug output?
>>
>>
>>
> Your suggestion to supply debug output led me to some experimentation to
> supply that output, and that then led me to conclude that I'm not
> understanding what certain options are supposed to do.
>
> Here's a base ssh_config file I started with:

ssh_config?  So you are trying to make all of these changes on the client?

[snip]
> With no agent running and with :
> PreferredAuthentications publickey
> I ssh to the remote box and get the passphrase prompt only, which is
> what I was after originally.
>
> Then I thought "Wait a minute that looks like keyboard interaction to
> me, so what does the "keyboard-interactive" option do?

The passphrase prompt is local.  Your passphrase is used to decrypt your
private key before it is sent to the SSH server.  It has nothing to do
with keyboard-interative.

-- 
William Hooper