Re: ssh passphrase
That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will output environment
variable for a unix domain socket. Then you run ssh-add and type in your passphrase.
The ssh-agent caches your key and access is limited to your user (permissions on the
unix socket). This is not secure enough for some of course.
Russell Coker wrote:
> Is it possible to have the ssh client read the pass-phrase for an authorised
> key from an environment variable?
>
> What I want to do is:
> export PASS=`ssh-askpass`
> for n in $MACHINES do
> ssh $n command
> done
> unset PASS
>
> Or something similar. Basically I want to login to 30 machines and run some
> command but without having to enter my pass-phrase 30 times. I know I could
> use expect (and will if no-one has a better suggestion). But I'm sure there
> is a better way (why else would ssh-askpass exist?).
>
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