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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Endless_SSH_password_prompts.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Endless_SSH_password_prompts.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..26def613f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Endless_SSH_password_prompts.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +### Please describe the problem. +Yesterday I installed git-annex on two computers and paired their repos. Today I logged back in to one of them, and as soon as the webapp loaded (autostarted in the background), it popped up an OpenSSH prompt wanting my key's password. I typed it in, and it popped up another. This went on several times. When I hit Cancel instead, it popped up a prompt wanting the password for the user account on my other computer. Even with that, once wasn't enough. + +This is bad enough, but worse is that the password prompt captures the keyboard input so I can't even open my Yakuake console to kill git-annex. Well, it's difficult and requires hitting Escape rapidly over and over until I can squeeze in a keystroke to the rest of the system. + +I don't understand why this is happening. + +1. Shouldn't git-annex have installed a passwordless key on my paired system? It did that for my remote repo. + +2. The prompt it's using has no option to remember the pasword. I use ssh-agent, but usually by running ssh-add in a terminal. Maybe if it would use a prompt that works with the agent it wouldn't ask for the password multiple times. + +3. I think it's opening multiple SSH connections at once, before I've entered the password even once, so even after I enter the password, it will keep asking for it until I've entered it for every SSH process that was already started. + +### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? +1 Nov 2013 Linux tarball on Ubuntu Raring 13.04 |