From owner-cvs-CVSROOT Fri Feb 27 08:21:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12608 for cvs-CVSROOT-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:21:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-cvsroot) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12539; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:21:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA02252; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:20:21 -0800 (PST) To: Nate Williams cc: Eivind Eklund , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-CVSROOT@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:15:24 MST." <199802271615.JAA04081@mt.sri.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:20:21 -0800 Message-ID: <2248.888596421@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-cvsroot@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Nasty, but effective. I wouldn't recommend it though. :( Well, works for me and has for years. ;-) > What does ssh-agent do? I've never used it, nor had any reason to. It puts cookies in the environment that all of its children inheirit, telling them to forward authentication requests back to the original ssh-agent. ssh-add prompts you for your password (even under X, if present, with a slick little popup box thingy) and registers a successful authentication with ssh-agent which then passes this credential on to any sub-ssh tasks which ask. This means you only enter your password *once* and all subsequent ssh requests to hosts which have that particular key in their .ssh/authorized_hosts files won't have to ask you for the password again, even if they're nested (e.g. ssh hosta -> ssh hostb). Jordan