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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:18:24 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-CVSROOT@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail
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On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 09:15:24AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > Yes, ssh-agent is a good idea.  Starting it on your window manager is,
> > however, not such a good idea since it won't include any of the
> > clients in your .xsession/.xinitrc and some of those are usually
> > xterms in the typical scenario.  Far better to have (assuming that
> > you're using xdm and .xsession):
> 
> What does ssh-agent do?  I've never used it, nor had any reason to.

It proxies authentication requests, so you don't have to type your
password (or private key passphrase) when using ssh to login
somewhere.  Very convenient if you do a lot of remote work (which I
do).

Eivind.

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