Force ssh key passphrase

[ben322]

Firstly i know that this has been talked about before but none of the solutions that worked that time are working now.

So i have an ssh key that i use to log into servers and it is encrypted with a passphrase, when i first used the ssh key on my mac it asked for the passphrase, so i entered it, but now it dosent need the passphrase anymore.


when i run: ssh-add -l
it gives: The agent has no identities.

I can also unset the environment variable that allows the ssh process to connect to ssh-add
: unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK
and still log in fine.

this shows that this is not ssh-add and probably the macos keychain that is storing either the decrypted rsa key or the passphrase for the key.

When i then look through the keychain i cannot see anything that would instantly show up as either the private key or the passphrase.



If there is anything you think i should try let me know.

Thanks for any help, Ben

 

[satcomer]

Did you save the password in your Keychain?

 

[ben322]

I did not do anything deliberate to save the password, if it had a checkbox i would have left it unticked as i didn't want it to save the passphrase, as far as i remember.