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Remove Mac OS X SSH Passphrase Pop-Up

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Problem

The ssh-agent on my Mac causes a pop-up for certain hosts: But for other hosts: And then I get the dreaded "Enter your password for the SSH key 'id_rsa'." pop-up. I know the ssh-agent is running and working because it worked for the first host. How do I stop the pop-up for all hosts and make it alw…

Error Output

[me@my-laptop]$ ssh cargo2

Last login: Tue Aug  3 09:26:43 2010 from trainwreck.arlut.utexas.edu
[me@cargo2]$

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Fix for: Remove Mac OS X SSH Passphrase Pop-Up

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The same thing happened to me if ~/.ssh/id_rsa existed but ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub did not, if you delete the pub file auth with the key still works but asks for your password every time

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