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/ The street finds its own uses for things. - William Gibson _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list