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Simpler than using keychain and ssh-agent, Hmm... did You ever try to
just generate your key by ssh-keygen and then copy the public key
~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub eg to Your remote host into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Would You consider this to be simpler?

  matthias



H.S. wrote:
> Hi Karl,
> 
> Karl M wrote:
>> Hi HS...
>> 
>> You can use keychain (a package available from setup.exe).
>> 
>> I do something like
>> 
>> ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1
>> if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
>>  ssh-add
>> fi
>> 
>> in my .bash_profile, because keychain is slow when I launch several
>> windows.
> 
> Okay, I will try that. BTW, just out of curosity, is using keychain
> only one of the methods to achieve this or is it the only method? I
> mean, is it possible to do this without keychain or any other
> packages and just with ssh and rsync and login/logout files and
> environment variables? 
...

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