[PLUG] ssh pass-phrase to log on to a system???

[Roderick A. Anderson]

I'm sure it does.  But I believe (the Linux Mint system is not available 
right now :-( so I can't confirm it) that it goes away after you close 
the terminal window where the command was run.

I think there is a gnome-key-agent thingy also but I haven't explored it.


Rod
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On 10/04/2012 12:38 PM, Scott Bigelow wrote:
> I wonder if perhaps Mint doesn't have a graphical ssh-agent manager
> installed? If you:
>
> ssh-add .ssh/${your_key_file}
>
> does that work for you?
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Roderick A. Anderson
> <raanders42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Poor subject so I have to explain.
>>
>> I've moved to Linux Mint 13 on my netbook from Fedora 12 and would like
>> to replicate some of the functionality I had before.  My searches are
>> taking me in circles so I'm hoping someone on the list will have the
>> solution or a good pointer and/or correct terms to search with.
>>
>> With Fedora and CentOS (current workstation/desktop) I added a line to
>> /etc/pam.d/gdm
>>
>>      auth       sufficient pam_ssh.so
>>
>> so when I log onto the system I can use my ssh key pass-phrase.  Once
>> logged in I now don't need to enter my pass-phrase when I ssh to a
>> remote system that has my public key in .ssh/authorized_keys.
>>
>> How do I accomplish the same with a Debian based system or just Linux
>> Mint?  Which files, what modules, etc?
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>> Rod
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