From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 27 08:37:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14909 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14903 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:37:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA02337; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:37:03 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id RAA00709; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:36:42 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980227173641.18702@follo.net> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:36:41 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Nate Williams Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail References: <19980227101302.39170@follo.net> <472.888572485@time.cdrom.com> <199802271615.JAA04081@mt.sri.com> <19980227171824.59113@follo.net> <199802271623.JAA04203@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199802271623.JAA04203@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 09:23:57AM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 09:23:57AM -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). > > Ahh, so if I don't have a passphrase (shhhhh), then it doesn't buy me > anything? It can do multi-level proxying, so if you ssh to freefall and then ssh to hub from freefall, you still won't have to type your password. Whether you like this or not is up to you; it does it _quietly_, which I don't really like - it means that somebody that crack freefall also can crack the rest of my accounts. Nasty. You can disable it with $ echo "ForwardAgent no" >> ~/.ssh/config Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message