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[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access

[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access

Ronan Waide waider at waider.ie
Wed Mar 20 11:26:45 GMT 2002


On March 20, waider at waider.ie said:
> On March 20, niall at linux.ie said:
> > 
> > OK - nearly there :-) - that one is messy when you have this integrated into
> > a GUI startup - I already have users whinging about having to enter a
> > password AND a pass phrase - they won't be thrilled at having to enter the
> > pass phrase twice :-)
> 

Whoops, missed the details of what you said here. You don't have to
ssh-add an actual passphrase to check that an ssh-agent is live - just
do ssh-add -l > /dev/null instead.

Cheers,
Waider.
-- 
>> I tend to not touch my procmail setup very much. It does a small amount
>> of spam filtering, and that's it.
> it'll be doing a small amount of falling out the window...grrr
                                 - email exchange with Louise




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