I wonder if perhaps Mint doesn't have a graphical ssh-agent manager
installed? If you:
ssh-add .ssh/${your_key_file}
does that work for you?
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Roderick A. Anderson
<raander...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Poor subject so I have to explain.
>
> I've moved to Linux Mint 13 on my netbook from Fedora 12 and would like
> to replicate some of the functionality I had before. My searches are
> taking me in circles so I'm hoping someone on the list will have the
> solution or a good pointer and/or correct terms to search with.
>
> With Fedora and CentOS (current workstation/desktop) I added a line to
> /etc/pam.d/gdm
>
> auth sufficient pam_ssh.so
>
> so when I log onto the system I can use my ssh key pass-phrase. Once
> logged in I now don't need to enter my pass-phrase when I ssh to a
> remote system that has my public key in .ssh/authorized_keys.
>
> How do I accomplish the same with a Debian based system or just Linux
> Mint? Which files, what modules, etc?
>
>
> TIA,
> Rod
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