From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Apr  9 16:44:20 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from k12-nis-2.bbn.com (K12-NIS-2.BBN.COM [128.89.6.195])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A5815304
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri,  9 Apr 1999 16:44:16 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from dm@k12-nis-2.bbn.com)
Received: from k12-nis-2.bbn.com (dm@LOCALHOST.BBN.COM [127.0.0.1])
	by k12-nis-2.bbn.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA11783;
	Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:41:05 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199904092341.TAA11783@k12-nis-2.bbn.com>
To: cjclark@home.com
Cc: lowell@world.std.com (Lowell Gilbert),
	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Using ssh on Multiple Machines 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:15:52 EDT."
             <199904091615.MAA08195@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> 
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 19:41:04 -0400
From: david mankins <dm@k12-nis-2.bbn.com>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


   
   From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
   Subject: Re: Using ssh on Multiple Machines
   
   So, I have taken the 'identity.pub' file, put it on a floppy (or
   whatever), and then just do something like 'cat identity.pub >
   .ssh/authorized_keys' on a separate machine. Now, above it says,
   'after this, the user can log in  without  giving  the  password,' but
   each time I invoke ssh between these machines I have to enter my
   passphrase. Why that happens (and whether it should happene at all) is
   not clear to me from the manpage. Since that is a heck of a lot more
   work to enter a passprhase than the remote user's password (or more
   often I make a typo in the passphrase), I often use the password for
   the user instead. Is there a difference? Why would I chose one over
   the other? Those are the kinds of things I have trouble with in the
   ssh manpages.
   
What you do is run ssh-agent:

	ssh-agent /bin/sh
	% # (now you're talking to a shell that is a child of the
	% #  ssh-agent, and has a way to talk to it in its
	% #  environment.  To this shell you say: )
	% ssh-add
	
ssh-add prompts for your passphrase.

After that, any ssh-related command you run from that shell gets its
authentication information from that ssh-agent.





To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message