X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "H.S." Subject: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:09:01 -0500 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D012759C6 AT EXCHANGE1 DOT belgium DOT fhm DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 In-Reply-To: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D012759C6@EXCHANGE1.belgium.fhm.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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? ->HS > passwordless logins to several hosts and Windows are hourly routine. Why > do you need them? > > matthias > -- 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/