On 2005-06-01 17:57, Steven Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Nathan Kinkade, Roland Smith, Greg Barniskis, and Rick Preston for > the replies. Each gave me quite a bit of info and I'm still digesting it. > > I've been successful using ssh-agent, though I have to enter the passphrase > each time I run my script. That's really only an annoyance now because I'm > developing the script and have to enter it often. That goes away when the > script is stable.
Save the output of ssh-agent's invocation somewhere, say in ~/.ssh/rc.agent: $ ssh-agent > .ssh/rc.agent $ . .ssh/rc.agent Then, use ssh-add to load the keys to the background agent: $ ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa Other shells, even ones that are started from different sessions, much later, can source the ~/.ssh/rc.agent script and use the already loaded keys. Make sure you don't leave an ssh-agent running and leave for vacations or something though, because that defeats the entire non-empty password thing :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"