Am Mo, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Greg Folkert um 21:22: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:29, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi everybody > > > > Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in > > combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: > > I have my notebook, where my user account is called "jorg". On the > > university network, I have different user names on several Unix > > machines. I'd like to be able to log into each of these using ssh, but > > not typing my password every time. I tried setting up ssh as described > > in this document: > > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~arun/misc/ssh.html > > but the one machine I tried so far asked me for my password even after > > generating keys and copying to the machine over there. Can someboy help > > me setting this up? > > Are you running Debian X environment? > If you are they have already setup an ssh-agent for your login.
I am starting Debian X environment using gdm, but after logging in, I can't find ssh-agent in ps -ae. Only see it after starting it by hand. > run: ssh-add for you various keys... and voila you are good. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -ae <snip> 1172 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent <snip> And now? > You still have to enter the passphrase initially for each key, but > then after which you don't. I dont't get that far... :( joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]