Colin Watson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Bill Moseley wrote: > > > ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & > > Tsk, tsk! You should have a passphrase on your key. Contemplate this > > instead. > > xterm -e ssh-add > > When ssh-add's stdin is not a tty and $DISPLAY is set, it pops up > ssh-askpass to ask you for a passphrase. Ah! Thank you for that edification. I did not know it ran a helper like ssh-askpass in that way. I had always used other methods to achieve that result. My apologies. Bob
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