On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:11:51AM +0000, Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Make yourself a key pair with the shh-keygen command and copy the
| > public half into the .ssh/authorized_keys at the far end. 
| > Then make sure you have an ssh-agent, and place your key into it with ssh-add. 
| > Then no password challenges should happen.
| > -- 
| I appreciate the help, but I have run into a problem while executing this. 
| 
| When I run the ssh-add, I get the following error:
| Cound not open a connection to your authentication agent. 
| 
| The page suggests that an authentication agent must be running to do this, 

Yes.

| but I thought that ssh would be the authentication agent. 

No.

Say this:

        eval `ssh-agent`

That will start one and also tell your shell enough for the other commands
to contact it.
-- 
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        [EMAIL PROTECTED]    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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