From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 13: 6:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A1D37B431 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-63.214.76.45.dial1.boston1.level3.net ([63.214.76.45] helo=Alexander) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16OPvQ-0001XZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:06:21 -0800 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:06:33 -0500 Subject: Re: SSH and MacOS X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v480) From: NDPTAL85 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200201091927.g09JRW000953@card.ngfl.gov.uk> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 02:27 PM, David Dooley wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies for asking this question here, but I don't know any Mac > resources and I figured that there would be some body here who might > know the answer seeing as MacOS is built over a version of FreeBSD. > > I have a boss that wants to use a MacOS X box as his workstation. > > All our servers have been configured to allow connections via ssh V2 > with DSA only key exchange. > > Now we can run the "ssh-agent tch" in a window and then run the > "ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa" to load the key and hey presto it all works > and from that window he can ssh to his hearts content. > > On all my other Solaris and FreeBSD workstations it has been possible > to configure the windows manager so that it runs the "ssh-agent -s" > after the user enters his login and passwd and before loading the > window manager and then run the ssh-add/ssh-askpass as a final part > of the login to allow the user to load their key. > > I am sure that is all eminently possible under MacOS X, but I can > find no details on how to do it while searching the web. > > I would be most appreciative for any pointers as to files to edit. > > Thanks for your time and again apologies for asking this question in > a FreeBSD list. On second thought maybe the X-Unix list at lists.themacintoshguy.com would be a better start since the Darwin guys get annoyed with purely Mac OS X questions. ------------------------------------------------------ Computers come in two styles - prototype and obsolete! ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message