[SOLVED] I am having a very interesting issue with SSH

[k3mist]

In summary, when trying to SSH into any system I am being asked for a passphrase on any of my *.pub keys. Couple of these *.pub keys are over a year old, so they have some mileage. Last night I was feeling like something new and decided to install KDE and is basically how I ended up in this situation.

So here is the interesting part, I can SSH fine using Cinnamon environment. However on TTY1 and KDE I am being asked for the passphrase. I can not recall if I have ever tried to ssh from TTY1 before, so I can not even use that as a reference at this point.

I have never seen anything like this in all the years I have been using Linux, lol. Cinnamon/Mint for about the past 2 years. Gnome for about 8. Linux in general for longer.

I believe the KDE installation through apt did change the permissions on my *.pub files. I am not sure why. When I first tried to SSH to a system I got the permissions are too open error (644). So I went ahead and did chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id*

This fixed the permission warning but now it is asking for a passphrase on any *.pub in .ssh. Again, only having the issue on TTY1 and KDE, but when I tried again with Cinnamon, no issues. Knowing Linux I am sure its something retarded.

I have been screwing around with this for about the past 2 hours and I do not understand what is going on or what changed. This is not something I usually seek help for, but I am stumped.

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[k3mist]

Figured this out awhile ago before my post was approved. So I'll just update this with my own answer I guess.

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ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa

Acctually added this to my .bashrc so its never an issue again.

I guess cinnamon/gtk automatically does this? Or has some other way of letting the ssh agent know those keys are to be used in .ssh/?

That part I still don't know and I still do not know why KDE changed the permissions on my *.pub keys when it was installed.