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[python-committers] SSH keys and Keychain

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 3 23:32:24 CET 2010 
I'm having some odd problems with my SSH key and Keychain which I hope someone
on this list can help with.

When I became a Python committer, I was using Windows, mostly, so I set up an
SSH key using PuTTY and Pageant which worked flawlessly.

More recently, I've being using Linux, mostly, as my primary development
environment, so I copied the key over from my Windows boxes. I can get access,
but I keep on getting repeatedly prompted for the passphrase.

I've installed Keychain and invoked it in my .bashrc, and whenever I open a
terminal session, it tells me that it found an existing ssh-agent and the
SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID seem to be correct. Yet, I get prompted for the
passphrase for every SVN operation. If I invoke ssh-add -L to see what keys have
been added, the original SSH key I copied over is there (there are two SSH keys,
not that this should cause problems: ~/.ssh/id_rsa holds the key I copied over
from Windows, and another more recent key I generated on my Linux host, which
I've stored as ~/.ssh/id_rsa_jaunty).

Anyone know what might be causing this?

Thanks for any help,

Vinay Sajip
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