[Bug 1526] SSH key prompt if public key missing and pubkey auth fails

Wed Jan 21 20:12:21 EST 2009

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org

--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>  2009-01-21 20:12:20 ---
I believe that this is not fixable - ssh needs the public key to
determine whether or not a particular key has been tried, but it cannot
extract this from a private key without decrypting it first, therefore
it needs to ask for the passphrase.

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