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 17:24:49 +0100 Message-ID: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D012759D3@EXCHANGE1.belgium.fhm.de> From: "Morche Matthias" To: "H.S." , X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id jB1GP7we031951 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? ... -- 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/