Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-12-01 Thread Karl M
Hi... It is just a little program I wrote to send the message. It is attached. The method I used works on XP and 2000. I have not tested on any other platforms. HTH, ...Karl From: CyberZombie Subject: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:03:20 -0600 I am

Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-12-01 Thread CyberZombie
unched as a service). HTH, ...Karl From: "H.S." Subject: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:24:20 -0500 Hi Karl, Karl M wrote: > Hi HS... > > You can use keychain (a package available from setup.exe). > > I do something like > > s

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: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-12-01 Thread H.S.
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 1. I did that. So why I am asked for my SSH passphrase when I try t

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: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread H. S.
Morche Matthias wrote: 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 (Yes, I have do

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

Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Karl M
a bash window, compared to using keychain (also launched as a service). HTH, ...Karl From: "H.S." Subject: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:24:20 -0500 Hi Karl, Karl M wrote: > Hi HS... > > You can use keychain (a package available from set

Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread H.S.
Hi Karl, Karl M wrote: > Hi HS... > > You can use keychain (a package available from setup.exe). > > I do something like > > ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1 > if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then > ssh-add > fi > > in my .bash_profile, because keychain is slow when I launch several > windows. Okay, I will try t

RE: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Karl M
his. HTH, ...Karl From: "H.S." Subject: how to make ssh-agent automatically Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:56:21 -0500 Hi, I yesterday installed a bare minimum Cygwin (via internet) on to a laptop running Windows XP. The purpose of the Cygwin installation is to backup data on to a Linux computer

how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread H.S.
Hi, I yesterday installed a bare minimum Cygwin (via internet) on to a laptop running Windows XP. The purpose of the Cygwin installation is to backup data on to a Linux computer using rsync and ssh. I was wondering, to allow for passwordless login via ssh I have to run ssh-agent and ssh-add comma