[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access

[Ronan Waide]

On March 19, john at antefacto.com said:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:35:37AM +0000, Ronan Waide mentioned:
> > On March 19, john at antefacto.com said:
> > >  How is SSH Agent supposed to "work". I've done roughly as Kevin has; I've
> > > got ssh-agent running, I've got:
> > ssh-agent is just a storage box for ssh keys. You need to use ssh-add
> > to put the keys in the box. A little light reading wouldn't go amiss,
> > as it's quite well documented.
> 
>  Indeed. I did some, and set everything up, however I don't get any errors
> etc.
> 
>  
> if ps aux | grep -q '$USER.*ssh-agent'; then
>     ssh-agent > $HOME/.ssh/env
>     . $HOME/.ssh/env
>     echo "export SSH_AGENT_PID=$SSH_AGENT_PID" > $HOME/.ssh/env
>     echo "export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" >> $HOME/.ssh/env
>     ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity ~/.ssh/id_dsa
> else
>     . $HOME/.ssh/env
> fi

Try adding the keys manually, rather than from a script. Then use
ssh-add to see if they've been added.

Cheers,
Waider.
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