Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, I know what you're talking about with the agent sticking around. I don't have any solution for you but this certainly sounds like something that's needed. Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > >That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will out

Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will output environment >variable for a unix domain socket. Then you run ssh-add and type in your >passphrase. >The ssh-agent caches your key and access is limited to your user (permissions >on t

Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-13 Thread Brian May
> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will Jens> output environment variable for a unix domain socket. Then Jens> you run ssh-add and type in your passphrase. The ssh-agent Jens> caches your key an

Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will output environment variable for a unix domain socket. Then you run ssh-add and type in your passphrase. The ssh-agent caches your key and access is limited to your user (permissions on the unix socket). This is not secure enough for some

Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-12 Thread Ben Collins
> Or something similar. Basically I want to login to 30 machines and run some > command but without having to enter my pass-phrase 30 times. I know I could > use expect (and will if no-one has a better suggestion). But I'm sure there > is a better way (why else would ssh-askpass exist?). eval `