[Bug 684] ssh cannot access keys stored in agent

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684

philipp at open.ch changed:

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           Severity|major                       |normal



------- Additional Comments From philipp at open.ch  2003-09-20 05:12 -------
Hm, you're right. In my local client configuration $HOME/.ssh/config, I have
keys defined like this:

  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity

These are the same entries I have in the global ssh_config. When I comment out
the lines above in $HOME/.ssh/config authentication works fine. 

Now, here's the interesting part: if *both* config files ($HOME/.ssh/config and
ssh_config) list the IdentityFile lines involving a "~" as a placeholder for
$HOME, I get the effect with the passphrase request. If one of the files refers
to the IdentityFile using "$HOME" for the homedirectory, such as 

  IdentityFile $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
  IdentityFile $HOME/.ssh/identity 

it works fine. It may be as simple as to say: Don't use tilde as a placeholder
for $HOME in the 3.7.1p1 config files anymore?



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