Re: Bug#156257: ITP: libpam-ssh -- <Roderick> I didn't write it, I'm just working on it. It authenticates you by u

[Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:43:41 +0900 (JST), Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp> said:
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:20:26 -0400,
> Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> wrote:
>>
>> The pam_ssh PAM module allows you to authenticate yourself by supplying
>> the passphrase for your SSH key (id_dsa, id_rsa, or identity in ~/.ssh).
>> Better yet, it can be to configured launch an ssh-agent and load the
>> decrypted key into it.  You supply your passphrase just once when you
>> log in, and you get an agent loaded with that key.
>
> Why not use ssh-agent directly?

I don't know what you mean by that.  Directly instead of what part of
the above process?

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Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org