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

[Chris Jantzen]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:04:16PM -0800, Jeff Schwaber wrote:
> > 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?

Set "ForwardAgent Yes" in your .ssh/config at each stage of your
journey.

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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