From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 20:23:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dante.naver.co.id (unknown [202.155.86.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AFE37B491 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by dante.naver.co.id (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9BC395354C; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:22:54 +0700 (JAVT) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:22:54 +0700 From: John Indra To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ssh-agent and ssh-add? Message-ID: <20010206112253.E18364@office.naver.co.id> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010206093155.B11011@office.naver.co.id> <20010205200057.B82933@mollari.cthul.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010205200057.B82933@mollari.cthul.hu>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:00:57PM -0800 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.2.5i on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:00:57PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >They let you cache your SSH credentials locally and forward them on to >other systems you connect to, so you don't have to type your >passphrase more than once. Interesting... After reading this, I try to run it. I'm on KDE's konsole: $ ssh-agent setenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/ssh-xNYNtyGM/agent.42177; setenv SSH_AGENT_PID 42186; echo Agent pid 42186; $ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. Hmm... something I did wrong? This is on -CURRENT >Be careful when using agent forwarding to connect to an untrusted >system, as you are essentially handing over a decrypted copy of your >RSA key to the remote system, and it can use it to impersonate you on >other systems where that key has access. Advice noted, thanks ;) >Kris /john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message