On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:50:45PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Christian Jaeger wrote: > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa </dev/null > > Hmm... Don't you think you should put a passphrase on your key? Not > having an encrypted key really lowers the security level. And with > ssh-agent running you only have to authenticate once per session. > That is hardly a burden. > sudo apt-get install ssh-askpass ssh-add < /dev/null If you have the ssh-askpass package installed (or ssh-askpass-gnome), if ssh-add senses that STDIN is not a terminal (and there may be other criteria, like $DISPLAY. I'm not sure) it will launch a cute little X-app that asks you for your password. This lets you run ssh-add from places you normally wouldn't be able to (like a .fvwmrc). When you log in, you get a nice popup that asks you for your password, and you go on with your life. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne email: ben@hartshorne.net http://ben.hartshorne.net
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