If you enter your login password, does it work? If so, then this
certainly is not a problem with ssh-keygen, but rather some problem with
getting ssh or sshd configured correctly - it's not that your login
password is attached to your key somehow, but rather that ssh is falling
back to requesting
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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