On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 14:06:08 -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:10:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Currently I am writing a piece on the why and how of setting up SSH2 for > > public key authentication. For now it is in Dutch, but an English > > version will follow later on. In this document I want to show a couple > > of examples of starting ssh-agent from ~/.xsession, ~/.profile or > > ~/.login. > > Take a look at keychain. It's the best way to start ssh-agent.
According to the description, it prompts the user for passphrases as soon as it runs, which may be annnoying when one wants to connect to a machine, do a few things (without needing ssh) and disconnect. I wrote some zsh scripts to start ssh-agent if one is not running, and call ssh-add only when needed (ssh, slogin and scp are wrappers). The ssh-agent is killed when it isn't needed any longer (but this doesn't work very well with screen, perhaps unless one chooses to make all shells login shells). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
