For those of you yet to experience the pure joy of SSH used properly:

On a unix box: (or Cygwin).

%> ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t RSA
<key in a good passphrase twice>
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Now let's copy the Public key to the remote machine you want to have access to:

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -l<user> <target_ip> '[ -d .ssh ] || mkdir .
+ssh ; chmod 700 .ssh ; cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'
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Now let's start up ssh-agent. You can either run you WM via ssh-agent: Add the following to your .xinitrc file:

exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent <Window Manager of choice>
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or to your .bashrc:

SSHAGENT=$(which ssh-agent)
SSHAGENTARGS="-s"
if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" -a -x "$SSHAGENT" ]; then
eval `$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENTARGS`
trap "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID" 0
fi
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Hooray... We're all set

Now, run ssh-add to add your private key passphrase to the ssh-agent keyring:

%>ssh-add
<key in your passphrase>
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Now, you can log into the remote machine with wanton abandon.

Repeat as necessary

I hope you'll all forgive the non-perlness of this post but I thought someone, somewhere may just find it usefull.

SM

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