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).
