Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way? [not what I asked for, but OK ]

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:02:07PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-04-08 21:24:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > So, I learned a lot about what doesn't work for me. I settled on
> > adding the following to my .bashrc:
> > 
> > if [ -x /usr/bin/ssh ] && [ -d ~/.ssh ]; then
> >    function ssh {
> >       if [ "The agent has no identities." = "$(ssh-add -L)" ]; then
> >          ssh-add
> >       fi
> >       /usr/bin/ssh $@
> >       unset -f ssh
> >    }
> > fi
> 
> I do something similar (but with zsh, as it is my shell), but also
> with the other ssh commands:
> 
> ssh()    { ssh_wrapper ssh "$@" }
> slogin() { ssh_wrapper slogin "$@" }
> scp()    { ssh_wrapper scp "$@" }
> sftp()   { ssh_wrapper sftp "$@" }
> 
> IMHO, this is better: if I don't need to use ssh in the session,
> I won't have to type my passphrase.

Is ssh_wrapper available in Debian? What does it do? I get no hits
in Google for 'ssh_wrapper Debian'.

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net