Also, guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
suggests, that it is not necessary to type in password for key
generation .
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SSH uses login password even when empty password was specified in ssh-keygen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511668
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Public bug reported:
Whenever I press Enter instead of putting in passphrase in ssh-keygen,
login password is stored and requested anyway.
I found "PermitEmptyPasswords no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and changed
"no" to "yes".
Then I restarted ssh daemon, but problem persisted. But this IMHO isn't