Hi Lars, Lars Noodén: > On 09/26/2016 01:18 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: >> ... >> Before establishing connection for the first time I did >> >> eval $(ssh-agent) >> PID xxxx >> ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa >> >> But it seems that the ssh-agent does not really authenticates to the >> remote server and as a fallback password auth is selected. (I anonymized >> the output below.) So, pubkey authentication is not working :-( > > Are you running the SSH client in the same shell as you have run eval? > Also, the desktop environment is often set up so that it is launched > under an agent already. So how many agents do you have running? > > pgrep -lf ssh-agent
I made sure that only one ssh-agent was running (under this user account) by using top package and killing one more that ran with the same account's user rights. So, I guess you were right, that it might not be necessary to fire it up with eval $(ssh-agent). Thanks for the command, makes it more easy. Cheers, Stephan
