Well, yes.  You told OS X to remember your ssh pass phrase.  And
yes, if someone gets control of your mac, they can probably do worse
things than push code into your github repos.  :)

On Apr 27, 9:01 pm, Hunt Jon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just noticed that when I was using GitHub, I always got asked for a
> passphrase for my SSH.
>
> But recently I didn't get asked for the passphrase when doing "git push".
>
> I remember I played with a few ssh-related commands, but I don't
> remember what I did.
> I feel a bit insecure because if somebody gets my Mac login password,
> he or she can "git push" or do whatever.
>
> I'm using Mac OS X Leopard. I made the keychain following the GitHub
> instruction.
>
> I really appreciate if anybody could explain what has happened to my computer.
>
> John
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