On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:40, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> Hey slugs,
>
> 2 parts to this:
>
> Does anyone know of a way to have a single ssh-agent running on a machine
> per user, so that when they log in on the console, or via {k,g,x}dm, or ssh,
> only one ssh-agent is running?You may like keychain. > Does anyone know how to have ssh keys loaded into ssh-agent without having > ssh-add ask for a passphrase, until that key is used? So I can have all the > keys I use loaded at ssh-agent start, but I get prompted for a passphrase on > the key only when ssh tries to use that key? Or perhaps a way for the key > to get added to ssh-agent when ssh needs it? I suspect this is impossible. The key is not usable until it's decrypted by the passphrase. Until it's decrypted, it can't be used in handshaking: thus all keys need to be known before the first ssh handshake of a given protocol. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.
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