Re^2: SSH and passphrase


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Re^2: SSH and passphrase

by pzbagel (Chaplain)

on Aug 05, 2004 at 20:40 UTC ( [id://380379]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I never understood the novelty of Keychain. It just seemed like a fancy way of going:

ssh-agent >.ssh-agent 
. .ssh-agent
ssh-add
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and then running

. .ssh-agent
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Everytime you login or start a job in cron. I guess keychain is slightly smarter than that. Only slightly...only slightly... I guess if I were actually using ssh-agent for my own regular logins it could help, but here it is reserved for cronjobs on servers that rarely get logged into let alone rebooted.

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Re^3: SSH and passphrase by The Mad Hatter (Priest) on Aug 05, 2004 at 22:27 UTC
I agree with you; it's really just a slightly better implementation of that above by making the process easier. I don't actually use it myself, even though I do use ssh-agent for my regular logins. shrugs	[reply]

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