SSH Key Prompting for Passphrase

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Jay Lewis

May 21, 2017 20:50

Hi,

In version 7.3.4 I'm getting prompted for a passphrase when connecting RDP over SSH but the key does not have one.

This started after recreating the SSH configuration because it was failing to set up the tunnel with this message "could not create ssh tunnel would block requesting userauth list".  Before this issue everything worked fine - and I confirmed that there's nothing wrong with SSH key authentication on my firewall - still works with plink with the same key including no issues with tunneling.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Jay L.

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  Jay Lewis May 22, 2017 05:58

  Hate it when I solve it myself, lol...  Converted the key to OpenSSH format and everything is back to normal.  Strange thing is that I'm virtually positive that I was using the id_rsa.ppk straight from puttygen before this started, but it's possible I had converted the original key in my connection configurations to OpenSSH format and kept the normal filename, oh well.  This time I named it so I'll remember next time...

  Hope this helps someone - OpenSSH format works, and the standard puttygen format does not.

  ~jay.

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