ssh2 key passphrase problems in 2.9.9 on Linux

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> 
> I've just compiled and installed openssh-2.9.9p2 (compiled against 
> openssl-0.9.6b using gcc-3.0.0) on a Slackware 7-based Linux machine 
> (kernel 2.4.6ac2).  The previously installed version was 2.9p2, compiled 
> against openssl-0.9.6a, also with gcc-3.0.0, but with a different build of 
> gcc-3.0.0.
> 
> Everything seems to work fine except for one problem:  passphrase matching 
> for ssh2 keys *always* fails.  I've run ssh-add under gdb several times 
> trying to see what's going wrong, so far without learning anything 
> particularly enlightening.

Are you using ssh-askpass or entering the passphrase from a tty?

-d

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