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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:45:34 -0500
From: "burning shadow" <burning DOT shadow AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: ssh asks for key passphrase every time
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I have created identification key with passphrase (id_dsa). Now every
time I try to open ssh connection to any host, ssh asks for passphrase
for this key. I believed, ssh should ask for a passphrase only if host
wants to accept key. FreeBSD's ssh, for example, does it this way.

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