Re: ssh-add no longer accepts passphrase
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 02:49:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> 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:
> ...
Life is too short ... I removed ~/.ssh/id_* and generated new ones, copied them
over, it now all works.
If anyone has a brilliant explanation of what went wrong I would be interested.
Only thing left to do: ssh-copy-id to various machines.
Regards
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