[PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

[Louis Kowolowski]

For each login session (it works as env), you need to ’ssh-add’. You can test this with ’ssh-add -l’ and if you see keys, then you’re OK on the local host. If you reboot, you’ll have to re-ssh-add.


> On Jul 19, 2019, at 6:21 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
>> Your local ssh-agent should do the trick. Going out on a limb, I'm going to suggest that the fix should be easy.
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I thoght ssh-agent was the tool.
> 
> And, I had used it with ssh locally without the pass phrase, but not before
> with scp.
> 
>> On source, run
>> ssh-add -l
> 
> Ah, after crashing and rebooting it lost the keys.
> 
>> If you don't see a key listed, run
>> ssh-add
> 
> Will do.
> 
>> I suggest running "chmod -R go-rwx ~/.ssh" on both hosts to ensure the
>> strict file permissions SSH demands.
> 
> All .ssh/ files have 644 perms except for the private key which is 640.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
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