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Re: Ready for upload: keychain-2.0.3-1


On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 08:10:11PM +0100, Hack Kampbjorn wrote:
>http://hackdata.com/cygwin/keychain-2.0.3-1/keychain-2.0.3-1.tar.bz2
>http://hackdata.com/cygwin/keychain-2.0.3-1/keychain-2.0.3-1-src.tar.bz2
>http://hackdata.com/cygwin/keychain-2.0.3-1/setup.hint
>
>setup.hint (same as on cygwin.com)
>sdesc: "An OpenSSH key manager"
>ldesc: "Keychain is an OpenSSH key manager, typically run from
>~/.bash_profile. When run, it will make sure ssh-agent is running; if
>not, it will start ssh-agent. It will redirect ssh-agent's output to
>~/.ssh-agent, so that cron jobs that need to use ssh-agent keys can
>simply source this file and make the necessary passwordless ssh
>connections. In addition, when keychain runs, it will check with
>ssh-agent and make sure that the ssh RSA/DSA keys that you specified on
>the keychain command line have actually been added to ssh-agent. If not,
>you are prompted for the appropriate passphrases so that they can be
>added by keychain."
>category: Utils
># cygwin contains kill and ps
># sh-utils contains uname and whoami
>requires: ssh bash grep gawk sh-utils cygwin
           ^^^
The package name is "openssh".

cgf


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