Hi I am new to this list so pleas bear with me if this question is irrelevant to the list.
I use ssh all the time and I am irritated that I need to first login via my passwd and then give my passphrase. I thought why not just give the passphrase, as I do when I do a remote login via ssh. I got the message from the list moderator that this may be irrelevant here - but IMHO it is related to ssh. Anyway he pointed me to PAM, and indeed I found a module pam_ssh.so that should fullfill my wishes. So my question is: is pam_ssh the way forward? I looked in the pam modules for my system, Mandriva 2006.0 and found that pam_ssh was not there, and it was not installable. Why is it missing? Is the module unstable or has it got security flaws, or is there something else I need to know? I just think it is the obvious choice to avoid both typing a passwd and a passphrase so every user of ssh would like to use something like pam_ssh. best regards keld
