I'm totally lost. What I desire is to put in my passphrase for my public key(s) when I logon to my box. Since I usually install from ports and use xfce, I have no infrastructure for this, and I'm getting nowhere fast. My Fedora box popped up a nice little "enter passphrase" box the very first time I ssh'd to my server, and now it 'just works'. My FreeBSD boxes (which are many - everything *but* the laptop with Fedora), 'just don't work'. I've installed everything with 'ssh' and either 'key' or 'agent' in the name from ports/security, and gone through the manpages, and tweaked countless environment variables, but every time I ssh on a FreeBSD box, it stubbornly locates the terminal I started any gui's from (i.e. meld + bzr), and asks for the passphrase a great many times daily. Add that I've started my gui with meld& (so as to continue using said terminal - don't love 'panels', 'choosers', 'menus', etc - guis are for word processors and file managers, not desktops), I can't even type in the passphrase there. I generally like using FreeBSD caveman style, but this is starting to drive me nuts. No meld/bzr==no work from home==no happiness ;)
Anyone have a 'standard' / FreeBSD-friendly best-practices for this? I think I'm just cluttering up my system here. Best, Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
