RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-12-01 Thread Morche Matthias
You're right, I avoided the use of passphrases and carefully considered the loss of security imposed by that and thus I do not need ssh-agent... It's been so long ago, that I just forgot about those consequences... matthias H.S. wrote: > Morche Matthias wrote: >> You just want to connect from

RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-12-01 Thread Morche Matthias
Yes, and I'm trying very hard to avoid it's use in my local environment :-) But thanks for that reminder anyway... matthias Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 1 08:34, Morche Matthias wrote: >> You just want to connect from one host to another one. It's totally >> sufficient to set up the key

Re: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 08:34, Morche Matthias wrote: > You just want to connect from one host to another one. It's totally > sufficient to set up the key and copy the public part into authorized > keys on the remote host. I never used ssh-agent nor ssh-add and > passwordless logins to several hosts and Windows

RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Morche Matthias
You just want to connect from one host to another one. It's totally sufficient to set up the key and copy the public part into authorized keys on the remote host. I never used ssh-agent nor ssh-add and passwordless logins to several hosts and Windows are hourly routine. Why do you need them? mat

RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Morche Matthias
Simpler than using keychain and ssh-agent, Hmm... did You ever try to just generate your key by ssh-keygen and then copy the public key ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub eg to Your remote host into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Would You consider this to be simpler? matthias H.S. wrote: > Hi Karl, > > Karl M wrot