Re: Using Putty/ssh w/stored key and emacs still asks for password

["gamename" <namesagame-usenet@yahoo.com>]

On Mar 13, 5:10 am, AriT93 <ari...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ismael Valladolid Torres writes:
>
>  > gamename escribe:
>  > > I've pre-defined public keys in my "~/.ssh/authorized_keys2" file so
>  > > that I can ssh to these machines without requiring a password every
>  > > time.  This is mostly to allow scripting with minimal hassle.
>  > >
>  > > For some reason, even though the ssh session starts fine and no
>  > > password is required, emacs asks for a password anyway.  How can I
>  > > stop that?
>  >
>  > Probably simply authorized_keys is the right name for the file.
>  >
>  > Nevertheless after years of using it, I find Cygwin's ssh pretty more
>  > comfortable from a command line or Emacs than Putty. Being both of
>  > them very nice pieces of software nevertheless.
>  >
>  > Cordially, Ismael
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> I previously had the same issues with authorized_keys, I switched to using
> pagaent from the PuTTY distribution to act as ssh-agent and that seemed to solve it for me.  HTH
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That did it. :)  Thanks!