I imagine the passphrase is protected... Where is it stored, anyway?
I'm already using ssh-agent, and the identity it's managing should be
allowed to log in on the local machine as root because the public key of
that identity is present in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. (In my .xsession, I
have "ssh-agent .xsession.real" and .xsession.real invokes ssh-add, so I
get the nice X dialog box asking for my passphrase, as suggested in the
SSH2.QUICKSTART document.)
What I meant about typing in the long password is that I don't want to use
'su -' because then I have to type in a long, nasty password frequently.
Ssh-agent handles ssh connections, not 'su' as I understand it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan B. Koum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 20:08
To: Cimarron Ryan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ssh -l root
Yeah.. whatever.. I figured you had no clue about permissions
and just gave an easy one to you ;)
As far as reading identity file -- you do have it passphrase
protected, right?
Actually, if you dont' want to type long password every time, just:
% ssh-agent startx
and then in the xterm window do:
% ssh-add
..and then you all set ;)
[ man ssh-keygen ssh-agent ssh-add ]
