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RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically
- From: "Morche Matthias" <Matthias dot Morche at P7S1Produktion dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:27:31 +0100
- Subject: RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically
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
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