Thanks a lot, a stupid reboot from my mac and everything was working just fine ! Strange though, I booted up a vm of backtrack and tried connecting from their and it had the same problem. Kind regards, Niels Stevens Op 29-dec-2010, om 22:04 heeft Greg Wooledge het volgende geschreven: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 07:02:48PM +0100, Niels Stevens wrote: >> I tried generating and using different keys. >> >> And still every time again the ssh server is complaining : "bad passphrase given, try again..." . > > First of all, it's the client that says that, not the server. The server > never sees the passphrase you use for your private key. (It never sees > the actual private key, either.) > > This problem is most likely caused by an ssh-agent caching the original > key's passphrase and attempting to use that on the new key. Either > disable the agent, or restart it (which probably means restarting your > login session).
