Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:05:47 +0800 From: Erwan Arzur <erwan@netvalue.com> To: John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ssh-agent and ssh-add? Message-ID: <3A7F862B.B1255377@netvalue.com> References: <20010206093155.B11011@office.naver.co.id> <20010205200057.B82933@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010206112253.E18364@office.naver.co.id>
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John Indra wrote: > > 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? > Sure, as ssh-agent set some environment variables, it has to exec your shell. The appropriate command would have been something like "exec ssh-agent zsh" ... i've replaced the line executing my window manager by "exec ssh-agent wmaker" in ~/.xsession. A nice thing to have installed is /usr/ports/security/openssh-askpass, too ... -- Erwan Arzur NetValue ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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