SSH Key Still asking for password and passphrase

SSH Key - Still asking for password and passphrase

回答1

Add Identity without Keychain

There may be times in which you don't want the passphrase stored in the keychain, but don't want to have to enter the passphrase over and over again.

You can do that like this:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa 

This will ask you for the passphrase, enter it and it will not ask again until you restart.

Add Identity Using Keychain

As @dennis points out in the comments, to persist the passphrase through restarts by storing it in your keychain, you can use the -K option (-k for Ubuntu) when adding the identity like this:

ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Once again, this will ask you for the passphrase, enter it and this time it will never ask again for this identity.

评论：

Note that this won't persist the identity on restarts. You can use the -K option to store the passphrase in your keychain when adding it, e.g. ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

– Dennis

Oct 27 '15 at 10:23

回答2

If you work with HTTPs urls, it'll always ask for your username / password.

If you're correctly using SSH when cloning / setting remotes. Then make sure you have a ssh-agent to remember your password. That way, you'll only enter your passphrase once by terminal session.

If it is still too annoying, then simply set a ssh-key without passphrase.

评论：

I just want to note that passphrases are used to encrypt your private key, so if you don't use a passphrase, then your private key will be unencrypted on your machine. It's like leaving a password in a text file laying around on your computer.

– user456814

Jul 5 '14 at 17:25

回答3

If you're using windows, this worked for me:

eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/*_rsa

It'll ask for passphrase in the second command, and that's it.

How to avoid being asked passphrase each time I push to Bitbucket

回答1

You need to use an ssh agent. Short answer: try

$ ssh-add

before pushing. Supply your passphrase when asked.

If you aren't already running an ssh agent you will get the following message:

Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

In that situation, you can start one and set your environment up thusly

eval $(ssh-agent)

Then repeat the ssh-add command.

It's worth taking a look at the ssh agent manpage.

回答2

Create (or edit if it exists) the following ~/.ssh/config file:

Host *
    UseKeychain yes
    AddKeysToAgent yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa