Timeline for answer to Did I just send my private ssh key? by slhck
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| May 30, 2018 at 15:19 | comment | added | grawity | @Kenster: No, it does read the .pub file as well – so that it could query the server about the public part, before having to ask you for the decryption passphrase. (OpenSSH needs this as the entire file is encrypted. PuTTY's key format, otoh, doesn't encrypt the public half so a separate .pub file is not needed.) | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 22:45 | comment | added | Kenster |
To nitpick, ssh doesn't actually read the .pub file. It just reads the private key file. The public key can be extracted from the private key. ssh-keygen has an option to read a private key and output its public key.
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| Jan 23, 2015 at 9:46 | comment | added | slhck | Yeah, it could be permissions or one of the usual suspects :) | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 9:39 | vote | accept | crunsher | ||
| Jan 23, 2015 at 9:39 | comment | added | crunsher |
Thanks! I found it hard to believe ssh would do that myself. Now that would mean the Permission denied (publickey). error is not caused by ssh sending the wrong key but one of the usual causes.
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| Jan 23, 2015 at 9:26 | history | answered | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |