OT: ssh passphrases (was Re: [PLUG] rsync)

Jeff Schwaber freyley at gmx.net
Fri Feb 6 23:05:02 UTC 2004


> Yes, you're wasting keystrokes. :-) The long answer is that you could
> save yourself time in the long run by
> 
> 1. wrapping your X or terminal session in ssh-agent
> 2. load your key into memory using ssh-add

I'd really like to use ssh-agent and ssh-add, but I regularly have to
ssh through a couple of machines to get places, and nothing I've done
has enabled ssh-agent to let me do that without typing my passphrase at
each step. Any ideas, anyone?

Jeff





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