From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 27 08:24:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13233 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13227 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA27464; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:23:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA04203; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:23:57 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:23:57 -0700 Message-Id: <199802271623.JAA04203@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Nate Williams , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail In-Reply-To: <19980227171824.59113@follo.net> References: <19980227101302.39170@follo.net> <472.888572485@time.cdrom.com> <199802271615.JAA04081@mt.sri.com> <19980227171824.59113@follo.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > 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). Ahh, so if I don't have a passphrase (shhhhh), then it doesn't buy me anything? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message