Norberto Bensa wrote on 08/01/09 01:11: > On Wednesday January 7 2009 22:01:14 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I guess I should have tried before asking! Every HOWTO/tutorial I >> googled seemed to really emphasize the "no more password entry!" >> aspect of key login. Thanks. >> > > That's right: no more password logins. However, you should (optionaly) lock > your key with a passphrase. > You can use ssh-agent if you want to do a (one-time) unlock of a passphrase-protected key pair.
`eval ssh-agent` will do the trick nicely, assuming you're on a *nix client. Cheers, Dave
