There was an copy/paste problem so ssh prompted for a passphrase on private key, as I copied from Chrome browser in format like this: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIICXQIBAAKBgQC/EWVsUVVTfdKw1I8XjC77f8glfU1UuPDan6uyd8ZeNcqthirZ brBWysW29eUzhW2eqvggYBoqyAHQXyiczM3ZfKQdxK3akiID7mM36muzPQIgZHy6 mqHcB9hKB33r93FOhB16c0NXcXnbPSN8IIBkVWuFm39iSd8ksD3A2UwU/wIDAQAB AoGBAJUHD5Gt2py1nhk4oadfOuIFZ+n90sxLN+l98uDP1VR0JnK0HEXdtQLtQ8uR /cTyxG6mscQm0SIfQHLzVez/PWqUEZ2Vk84tIgdXE2VbLHk2WOT1tNYhutXa4+DZ W8WtbawBz/27z89GOmw7V+a2AQy7yB9kGjteu/+HmWts8OOBAkEA8cPd5TwPodJu +ajxzHClQ/QK5NDAr3ibbnKzXsnB7RHCdkJfnxi7qLadBgIgp5Og6NUj835EvyR3 4XVQCOJ3QQJBAMpRXp8oiQMcPcOb/NXhMNNEqnorO7zKh+ayz1wXajk7gajsGYCr GfVlg4dlDonCIrWgZZdt617pTJ5reY+9vD8CQQCiWi/mwsCUoOXZTjSiX3r7+SRf qDfdHhbywp/lpYNPGkAGfmgMROWwVIF6CW+4WRETih5MY5zy5yCCDO+kJ8CBAkAi 2NELaNfwiTS6NGvgCuF2AiW61Sd85QVzXukIW6AYK3+xsLjTyKS397wn3egbIi0I S5Az/OLFfjmML8bIU03RAkA7oNvS2hKXMFXoKmRDnnzzYAK5Ok4v5Tl//IqCwfWP 8zCDcmrq/OxlyKAnEPaiRz+Q6leyOZdNYuOK6Pn+gCqM -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
It is inappropriate format .... should be reformulated like this: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIICWgIBAAKBgQCINfYa6R5EUw35YY0Tds0ruFAphBSwrLhEuLmvpaxm9C5Q9Ndc ZY1RDK6q2/1xvp7DggqpThR9N4uR4m8BwykRQZSb0bneV2Bk/lq4W1EGES8NXBmW N4ULYr7uLFySSSTzNSnQPtOppBEJOj2B9lSllrCOZO2dG5P631c9LXfy+wIBJQKB gFwIyOHAG16Y+5qpsllCbvQG6g42pjIvg2y0Km/C9/KJT7oo5IqJzi/YIv3S6YQ0 sHZDG/Xaz5LgV2KSE6c+rQqrvTBnoZwdoLCBdMl2ZtGeLmNV1RQvOjHPpVssUGTQ wVV1pI40xF0ClhZGxRjxdu0T/zHOPAcDl3mtzNQ+uW21AkEAyeJLgD5qnWmAtaLp iLoGFa2HtilfVSxa2Qo/lBkViYY+0b3no/73VcEg1A9k6VEoNY3gdW6C7rzxot+i tI4pXQJBAKy5CK3eMIPgHH7iANFvd9P1MBJtLX264bKMwUIy54qph9QHufrQzH2v OBHrsHRyMvvcMQXzD8tdQKviDm4AUDcCQQCYxu0HGnox7vmeNhiDJP2vij0v5/Ud 3GBs5Skxzcsb9uNuSoXINpGordOnZZh5Nn9LH0ITrZOEO/UhT0qyJmR9AkAzWZrL 6BxC4cNIUQcpggEHqcIu/d0XipYgU1wMwwaRAffy7YpRfFh4ZIZKhFcN3MMMm2iF Omx6utvgEsYFBwMXAkADobTKBNAZGeht4ZQxZ5ZpSedI+waqF0lKhCJxIBbYRcDa QRyDfMB6/pobUUpOuWPkhsGTM9/NR8F2BSP6/Nsj -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sinisa Denic" <sde...@peacebellservers.com> To: j...@stratosec.co Cc: "cloudstack-users" <cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:48:50 PM Subject: Re: SSH Keypair passphrase I tried to login from linux bash ssh(open ssh client)..tried to press enter…without success. When I tried to import private key (which I got at createSSHKeyPairs) in putty(peageant) I had no success too..(unrecognized key..). Next, what is the purpose of password.encrypted what can I do with that? And I noticed in log(vmops) file that system returns some password during saving to virtual router and that password differ from real one by which I could login via ssh password session. DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (Job-Executor-8:job-19) Seq 3-114950253: Executing: { Cmd , MgmtId: 55732811604293, via: 3, Ver: v1, Flags: 100111, [{"routing.SavePasswordCommand":{ "password":"rV8nnagae" ,"vmIpAddress":"192.168.1.100","vmName":"ubuntu32","accessDetails":{"zone.network.type":"Basic","router.name":"r-11-VM","router.ip":"169.254.1.121","router.guest.ip":"192.168.1.101"},"wait":0}}] } Lot of passwords..can someone explain please? Thank you.