Re: ssh-add problem
- From: Bob Proulx <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:07:05 -0600
john wrote:
The following output describes my problem:
richard@debian:~/Desktop$ ssh-add -c ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Enter passphrase for /home/richard/.ssh/id_rsa:
Bad passphrase, try again for /home/richard/.ssh/id_rsa:
What am I doing wrong?
"Bad passphrase" says that the passphrase you typed in did not match
the one used on the file. They did not match. The file was not
decrypted and could not be used. It failed and retried giving you the
chance to try again and answer the passphrase question correctly. It
asked you for the passphrase again. You need to supply the same
passphrase that you used when you created the file with ssh-keygen.
I get similar response if I use ssh-keygen.
ssh-keygen is used to create that file (and to manage it later) and to
set a passphrase upon it. The file is encrypted so that if the file
is copied (from the live file or from backup) then it can't be used
without knowing the passphrase to decrypt it.
If you have forgotten your passphrase and cannot remember it then
there is no way to recover it. You would need to create a new key and
set a new passphrase upon it. Then you would need to update all
remote host locations that are using it in the ssh authorized_keys
file.
Bob
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