On Dec 2, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:

Sure, perhaps for just a few minutes but then it won't work on the system anymore because it won't match the key in the cfengine config which would overwrite whatever key they install.

No no, the passphrase is stored as part of the user's private key. Your cfengine scripts are only managing the public half of the keys, right? The passphrase can be removed from the private key without anything changing in the public key.

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