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[Bug 1526] SSH key prompt if public key missing and pubkey auth fails
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526


Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
CC| |djm@mindrot.org




--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> 2009-01-21 20:12:20 ---
I believe that this is not fixable - ssh needs the public key to
determine whether or not a particular key has been tried, but it cannot
extract this from a private key without decrypting it first, therefore
it needs to ask for the passphrase.

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