On 3/31/07, Paul E Condon wrote:
I'm setting up SSH to replace telnet for use on my LAN. I've gotten basic functionality working but I'm struggling with ssh-agent and ssh-add. Where should I put them? Or have invocation of them already been planted in boot-up scripts somewhere awaiting my flipping a few config switches?
See /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ and the use-ssh-agent configuration option in /etc/X11/Xsession.options. ssh-agent should already be started for you if you simply use the default setup. Simply run ssh-add from a gnome-terminal.
I'm running Etch with tasksel configured desktop environment. My style of working doesn't use GUI much, but I have _many_ gnome-terminal windows open, and I want ssh links to several computers on my screen. From reading a few advise web sites I get the impression that I could reduce typing of passphrase by using ssh-agent and ssh-add, but I can't figure out how. And then it might be that these programs actually serve an entirely different purpose than I believe. Advice?
HTH. -- Kushal