On Aug 05, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote: > I am running Debian 12 - Bookworm. > [...] > So: After reboot (logging in again) I needed to re-identify myself and > used ssh-add as usual. > > It tells me: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa: > > I tried many times, I know that I am entering the correct pass phrase. > I have not changed anything in ~/.ssh/ for 6 months. > /home/addw/.ssh/id_rsa was changed in 2020. I do have ssh-agent > running. Make sure it's actually the right passphrase (e.g. in nano). I've hit the keyboard / language input switch before (I have / had multiple input languages in the past); and a side effect is that the special characters move; and I'm not typing in what I think I'm typing in. If that checks out, you can test the passphrase with 'ssh-keygen -yf PRIVKEY' . -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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