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Subject: Re: Why does SSH prompt for 2 passwords?
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Hi!

Joe Lewis <joe@relia.net> wrote:

> Every time I SSH to a FreeBSD machine from a unix prompt, I get
> prompted for a password twice.  The first time, that password NEVER
> works. Sometimes it is automatically entered as nothing, and a
> Response line is printed.  For example :

Hmm - I think you generated a key-pair for SSH that is password=20
protected. So when you starts up ssh, it looks for your private keys,=20
sees, that it needs a password to use them and asks you for that=20
password. When you didn't give the right password for the key or the=20
key alone is not allowed to do an authorisation, then the password=20
authorisation on the machine is used.

Please see the documentation of ssh for more details.

With kind regards,

Konrad

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