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A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data. Passphrases are often used to control both access to, and operation of, cryptographic programs and systems.

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How do I remove the passphrase for the SSH key without having to create a new key?

I set a passphrase when creating a new SSH key on my laptop. But, as I realise now, this is quite painful when you are trying to commit (Git and SVN) to a remote location over SSH many times in an hour. One way I can think of is, delete my SSH keys…
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How to reset or change the passphrase for a GitHub SSH key?

I have forgoten my passphrase in Git. How do I reset it? I found two solutions on Stack Overflow, but I want to know what process to follow to reset it or to get it.
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How to make gpg prompt for passphrase on CLI

The encryption tool of gnuPG package gpg prompts for passphrase using a GUI dialog box when invoked by a regular user, however when invoked by root it prompts on CLI. How to make it use the CLI even when invoked by a regular user. version:GnuPG…
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Setup passphraseless ssh to localhost on OS X

I'm trying to get Hadoop's Pseudo-Distributed Operation example (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/stable/single_node_setup.html) to work on OS X Lion, but am having trouble getting the ssh to work without a passphrase. The instructions say the…
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ssh key passphrase works in windows but not in linux

I'm working to a project in git. In Windows, I'm using git extensions to manage this project, and to access to the public repository they gave me a .ppk key. I load it into git extension, with the passphrase that they gave me, and it works. Now I…
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How do you generate passwords?

How do you generate passwords? Random Characters? Passphrases? High Ascii? Something like this? cat /dev/urandom | strings
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SSH: "Bad passphrase" after generation of public key

When I execute these commands (setting a passphrase, after the first)... $ ssh-keygen -t dsa $ chmod 600 my_key $ chmod 600 my_key.pub ...and then, to test the passphrase... $ ssh-add my_key.pub ...I keep getting: Bad passphrase, try again for…
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Suppress the passphrase prompt in GPG command

Edited Version I have a question about GPG, but I write all of the process, maybe it will help someone. I want to: Suppress the passphrase prompt in GPG command. I don't want to: use -c option (--symmetric). I have 2 systems Linux and Windows. I…
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SSH key passphrase with git pull using Fabric

I'm trying to automate deployment of application using fabric. The application code is hosted on GitHub and rolling out a new version is very straightforward - just do 'git pull' and that's it. The application is hosted on 100 servers, so I would…
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lftp with key + passphrase

I'm using lftp to send files to an SFTP server, but I don't how to connect with key and passphrase. So in sftp, I can do this: sftp -i .ssh/id_rsa.mykey login@my.host.fr Enter passphrase for key '.ssh/id_rsa.mykey': my passphrase here So, how can I…
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Purpose of gpg-agent in gpg2

I have been using gpg for encryption for a while. Someone suggested that I should use gpg2 instead. When I went to use gpg2, I could do almost nothing; it would complain that access to private keys was required, but I could not seem to get it to use…
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cygwin ssh no putty yes?

I generated a keys with putty w/ no passphrase. putty works fine, but now i installed cygwin and would like to use ssh to login. For some reason i'm prompted for a passphrase? why? putty just logs straight in? i don't want to have to generate a…
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Java git client using jgit

I am having some difficulties with a git client written in java. I am using the jGit library to connect through ssh on the git server. The problem is that i don't know how to specify the path to the private key and the passphrase for it. I couldn't…
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How do I resolve macOS Carthage hangs when running update?

Started working on a new project where I need to run "Carthage update" for a mix of private and public projects some of which have submodules. No matter what I do Carthage hangs with no indication of why. What can I do to determine the hangs, and…
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How to make eclipse remember ssh key passphrase?

I'm using Egit with Eclipse to use git and access github. Everything is working fine but one thing that I wish to omit to type id_rsa key passphrase everytime I push my commit to github. I'm asked to enter passphrase each time I restart Eclipse and…
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