On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:40:03PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to have a single ssh-agent running on a machine
per user, so that when they log in on the console, or via {k,g,x}dm, or ssh,
only one ssh-agent is running?
At boot time start one agent per user:
su
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Hey slugs,
2 parts to this:
Does anyone know of a way to have a single ssh-agent running on a machine
per user, so that when they log in on the console, or via {k,g,x}dm, or ssh,
only one ssh-agent is running?
if you run ssh-agent without giving
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:40, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Hey slugs,
2 parts to this:
Does anyone know of a way to have a single ssh-agent running on a machine
per user, so that when they log in on the console, or via {k,g,x}dm, or ssh,
only one ssh-agent is running?
You may like keychain.
This one time, at band camp, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
That would be seriously insecure.
How so? The key couldn't be used until the passphrase was entered. I want
my passphrases to be asked for on demand. keeping the *already passphrased*
keys in ssh-agent all the time is insecure.
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This one time, at band camp, Robert Collins wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:40, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Hey slugs,
2 parts to this:
Does anyone know of a way to have a single ssh-agent running on a machine
per user, so that when they log in on the console, or via {k,g,x}dm, or ssh,
only
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:53, Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:25, Robert Collins wrote:
I suspect this is impossible. The key is not usable until it's decrypted
by the passphrase. Until it's decrypted, it can't be used in
handshaking: thus all keys need to be known before the
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:25, Robert Collins wrote:
I suspect this is impossible. The key is not usable until it's decrypted
by the passphrase. Until it's decrypted, it can't be used in
handshaking: thus all keys need to be known before the first ssh
handshake of a given protocol.
Technically
Hey slugs,
2 parts to this:
Does anyone know of a way to have a single ssh-agent running on a machine
per user, so that when they log in on the console, or via {k,g,x}dm, or ssh,
only one ssh-agent is running?
Does anyone know how to have ssh keys loaded into ssh-agent without having
ssh-add
