Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-20 Thread Louis Kowolowski
On Jul 20, 2019, at 1:35 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > >> If you’re logging in to a *nix box with X, you might check out something >> like https://github.com/sigmavirus24/x11-ssh-askpass. This would prompt >> you at login and make the keys available

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: If you’re logging in to a *nix box with X, you might check out something like https://github.com/sigmavirus24/x11-ssh-askpass. This would prompt you at login and make the keys available for any terminal/shell session that is spawned from your X

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-20 Thread Louis Kowolowski
On Jul 20, 2019, at 7:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > >> If you reboot, you’ll have to re-ssh-add. > > Thanks, Louis. That't the part I forgot. > If you’re logging in to a *nix box with X, you might check out something like

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: Your local ssh-agent should do the trick. Going out on a limb, I'm going to suggest that the fix should be easy. Paul, I thoght ssh-agent was the tool. It is. On a Linux machine ssh-agent is usually run

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, King Beowulf wrote: I only use ssh and associated tools with keys when remoting in from the outside. On my internal LAN, I find NFS simpler and more versatile. One box exports several directories via NFS, users/no root. The other boxes then just mount those as users and its

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: If you reboot, you’ll have to re-ssh-add. Thanks, Louis. That't the part I forgot. Regards, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-19 Thread King Beowulf
On 7/19/19 2:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > As I transition from the old server/workstation I frequently copy files and > directories using scp. Each time I need to enter my pass phrase and I > thought that ssh-agent eliminated that need. Apparently not. Since all > transfers are in the LAN and not

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-19 Thread Louis Kowolowski
For each login session (it works as env), you need to ’ssh-add’. You can test this with ’ssh-add -l’ and if you see keys, then you’re OK on the local host. If you reboot, you’ll have to re-ssh-add. > On Jul 19, 2019, at 6:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Paul Heinlein

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-19 Thread Louis Kowolowski
Adding to what Paul said, you should also be able to run ’ssh-add -l’ on the destination host and see the same key. If not, you aren’t successfully forwarding the agent. You may wish to try things manually, with a ssh -A ${host}, alternatively, you could add ' ForwardAgent yes’ to your

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: Your local ssh-agent should do the trick. Going out on a limb, I'm going to suggest that the fix should be easy. Paul, I thoght ssh-agent was the tool. And, I had used it with ssh locally without the pass phrase, but not before with scp. On

Re: [PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: As I transition from the old server/workstation I frequently copy files and directories using scp. Each time I need to enter my pass phrase and I thought that ssh-agent eliminated that need. Apparently not. Since all transfers are in the LAN and not

[PLUG] exchanging files on LAN

2019-07-19 Thread Rich Shepard
As I transition from the old server/workstation I frequently copy files and directories using scp. Each time I need to enter my pass phrase and I thought that ssh-agent eliminated that need. Apparently not. Since all transfers are in the LAN and not exposed to the outside world, which tool allows