Re: ssh-agent without graphical display manager? how?
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:55:27AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting from nfs to sshfs on my home-grown
> file-server/backup-server computer. This computer does not run Xwindows
> or any other graphical manager. I control it mostly by logging into it
> using ssh. But when I log in this way, it appears that ssh-agent is
> not started, and consequently, I cannot use ssh-add on it. I can, of
> course, use ssh-add on my desktop computer, but that is not where the
> private key for the backup server is stored. Has anyone confronted
> this situation and worked out a solution? Advice?
>
> (Please don't suggest that I use some prebuilt backup system that does
> everything you want. I am special, i.e. especially unreasonable in my
> goals/needs.)
pam-ssh ?
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