X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:57:33 +0100 Message-ID: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D012759C4@EXCHANGE1.belgium.fhm.de> From: "Morche Matthias" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id jB16vlbl028121 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? ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/