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RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically
- From: "Morche Matthias" <Matthias dot Morche at P7S1Produktion dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:57:33 +0100
- Subject: RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically
Simpler than using keychain and ssh-agent, Hmm... did You ever try to
just generate your key by ssh-keygen and then copy the public key
~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub eg to Your remote host into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Would You consider this to be simpler?
matthias
H.S. wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> Karl M wrote:
>> Hi HS...
>>
>> You can use keychain (a package available from setup.exe).
>>
>> I do something like
>>
>> ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1
>> if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
>> ssh-add
>> fi
>>
>> in my .bash_profile, because keychain is slow when I launch several
>> windows.
>
> Okay, I will try that. BTW, just out of curosity, is using keychain
> only one of the methods to achieve this or is it the only method? I
> mean, is it possible to do this without keychain or any other
> packages and just with ssh and rsync and login/logout files and
> environment variables?
...
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