On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:17:22AM +0000, Marcus Williams wrote: > On 03/11/2004, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > Do you have such a thing? I would absolutely love an ssh agent that > > only asks for pass-phrases as needed, times them out eventually, and > > can prompt before answering a challenge. > > quintuple-agent does something like this. Not sure if it supports ssh > or not - its really for gpg and such. Looks like you could write a > wrapper script so that it supported ssh though.
Thanks for the idea. However, ssh-agent has to speak the ssh-agent challenge-response protocol, and provides no way to call out to another program for pass-phrases. So hooking it up to quintuple-agent would require some work, I believe. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]