Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

[Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org>]

Hi Lars,

Lars Noodén:
> On 09/26/2016 05:46 PM, Stephan Beck wrote:
>> ... it might
>> not be necessary to fire it up with eval $(ssh-agent).
>> Thanks for the command, makes it more easy.
> 
> No problem.  If you want to see which keys are available to ssh, you can
> use ssh-add for that:
> 
> 	ssh-add -L
> 
> It has to be run in the same shell as you would then run ssh.
> 
> That will list the public key matching the private key which has
> actually been loaded into the available agent.  But that availability
> might be the issue here, as with the earlier message, I am still
> wondering if ssh is finding the "right" agent.

I've tried again and detected the following:
No agent is started when I login to the "local ssh user account".
I have to do
eval $(ssh-agent) --> for every single session
ssh-add /path/to/key
ssh-add -L
(outputs the key)
Then I connect to the remote server and it works without having to type
a passphrase. Gee!

The fact that there are two ssh-agents under my other user account,
one with the -s option, the other exits with LX session, is still under
investigation :-)

Thanks
Stephan