I've used a nifty frontend bash script to ssh-agent called keychain. You can get it here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml Also the author has a good 3 part howto available here: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html * Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) on [040328 10:53] thus spake: > Am So, den 28.03.2004 schrieb Steve Searle um 12:46: > > Many moons ago I set up my (then RH) Linux box to pass the current > > password automatically when SSHing to another box. If I was logged on > > as steve, and I did "ssh myserver" it would take me straight to a shell > > on myserver, logged on as steve, assuming the steve account on myserver > > had the same password as the box I was coming from. I was not asked for > > the password. > > > > Does anyone know what I need to change to change my current setup to > > work like this. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve > > A reader friendly howto what you did set up is to be found here: > > http://fedoranews.org/dowen/sshkeys/ > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl > Sirendipity 17:37:40 up 9 days, 1:19, load average: 0.41, 0.16, 0.11 > [ ?????????? ??'?????????? - gnothi seauton ] > my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: not available > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 189 bytes > Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil > Url : /archives/fedora-list/attachments/20040328/b6ca006d/attachment.bin > > ------------------------------ -- ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Sub NumLock ON at boot LOST #024 --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- To turn numlock on automatically for a few consoles at boot --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- #!/bin/sh # Use setled program. This script INITTY=/dev/tty[3-6] # will turn *Numlock* on for con- for tty in $INITTY; do # soles 3 through 6 only ... Fire setleds -D +num < $tty # this script in rc.local/ equiv- done # alent for your distro --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- ####<bish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>#################################### _ _ \|/ o' \,=./ `o @-@ http://www.jak8us.org/~sam/ (o o) --ooO--(_)--Ooo---=--=---=--=---=---=---=--=---ooO--(_)--Ooo-- work: slmingol@xxxxxxxxxxx home: sam@xxxxxxxxxxx \ / GPG Pub. Key: http://www.jake8us.org/~sam/pubkey.asc --..---..---..---..---..---..---..---...---..---..---..---..--