Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:23:37 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ssh-agent and ssh-add? Message-ID: <20010206102337.B52096@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010206112253.E18364@office.naver.co.id>; from john@office.naver.co.id on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:22:54AM %2B0700 References: <20010206093155.B11011@office.naver.co.id> <20010205200057.B82933@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010206112253.E18364@office.naver.co.id>
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On Tue 2001-02-06 (11:22), John Indra 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? I'm guessing you're using bash. Try "eval `ssh-agent -s`". In tcsh, I use "eval `ssh-agent -c`". Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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