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 10:27:31 +0100 Message-ID: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D012759CA@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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id jB19RjOs002862 Yes, and I'm trying very hard to avoid it's use in my local environment :-) But thanks for that reminder anyway... matthias Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 1 08:34, 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 >> passwordless logins to several hosts and Windows are hourly routine. >> Why do you need them? > > Did you ever heard the term "passphrase"? man ssh-keygen. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin > to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/