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Date:	Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:24:49 +0100
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From:	"Morche Matthias" <Matthias DOT Morche AT P7S1Produktion DOT de>
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You're right, I avoided the use of passphrases and carefully considered
the loss of security imposed by that and thus I do not need ssh-agent...
It's been so long ago, that I just forgot about those consequences...

  matthias



H.S. wrote:
> Morche Matthias wrote:
>> You just want to connect from one host to another one. It's totally
>> sufficient to set up the key and copy the public part into authorized
>> keys on the remote host. I never used ssh-agent nor ssh-add and
> 
> 1. I did that. So why I am asked for my SSH passphrase when I try to
> SSH from my local machine to remote machine?
> 
> 2. In your situation, do you have pass phrases for SSH or not?
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