Re: [Sheflug] ssh-akey ssh-ell

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Paul Sims wrote:
>Trying to set up ssh, can't get it to stop asking me for passphrase. I need 

If you run ssh-agent then you only need to type in the pass phrase once.

I have

if [ -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]; then
eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add
fi      

in .bash_profile

so I type in my pass phrase when I login and thereafter
I can ssh or scp without having to type in a pass phrase.

atb

Martin
-- 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph



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