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Jonathan Airey
Jonathan Airey

Reputation: 436

Why do I constantly have to enter my passphrase in SSH

I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and have a passphrase on my SSH key. Up until a few days ago, I have not had to use my key after I've authorised it with Git projects etc, but now every operation I do with SSH (be it pushing in Git or logging in to other systems) it's asking me to enter my passphrase.

I have look at other answers on here and it suggests to change the chmod of the id_rsaxxx SSH files to 600. I have done this but it has not worked.

The only thing I believe has changed it is performing a few OS updates, could this have caused it? Otherwise, what has? I do not want to be entering the key each time I perform a simple operation.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 172

Answers (1)

jordelver
jordelver

Reputation: 8432

Normally, SSH Agent takes care of caching your SSH key passphrase for the session, so that you don't have to type it all the time.

Is SSH Agent running?

Upvotes: 1

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