I suspect this problem is not with ssh itself, but I'm really at my wit's end and don't know where else to ask. Requiring more stringent security for a new server, I have for the first time set up an ssh key with a password which I then store in keepass. If I log in once onto my remote server (call this one server "A"), I can paste in the password and connect with no problem. I can log out, and back in, several times with no issue, each time pasting my password in from keepass. But if I log out, stay logged out for a while, when I return I find I can no longer successfully paste in a key. It acts as if it's the wrong password. If I manually type the password, then I can log in. And if I log back out, I can again paste the key successfully. This will work for a few hours, and then the issue starts over. I tried using two keys. Log into server A with key 1. Log out. Wait. When logging back in with a pasted password fails, I tried key 2. Pasting the password with key 2 also fails. Typing in the password manually with key 2 works. And when I log back out, I can then paste in password successfully with either key 1 or key 2. For a while. The trick of typing in the password to get it to work again for a while, it works only for server A. By that, I mean, once I cannot paste in a password to reach server A, if I ssh to server B, type in the password manually, then exit, I still cannot paste in a password successfully to get to server A. I have to ssh to server A, manually type in the password, connect, exit, then I can ssh back and successfully paste the password again for a while. If I close the terminal window and start a new one, then I am also able to successfully paste in a password for a time. I at first suspected something with ssh-agent, but disabling it has no effect. I wonder about something with the clipboard itself. When ssh stops working with a pasted password, I can paste the password onto the terminal screen. I can paste passwords into sudo. It all works fine. But ssh doesn't work. Neither does ssh-keygen. For example, I can't paste in the original password with ssh-keygen in order to change the password. I quite at my wit's end on this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
