On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:12, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:01, Anne Wilson decided we wanted to hear the > > following: > > > ssh-agent is just an empty pocket until you give it your key and > > > passphrase with ssh-add. > > > > That creates id_dsa - which was there before. Is there some sort of > > clean-up going on, so that it needs to be renewed? > > nope. > ssh-keygen -t dsa > would regenerate ~/.ssh/id_dsa{,.pub} > ssh-add just looks for your key (probably id_dsa ) and caches the password > you type in. > I assume you were seeing something like this... > [stuart@lanky ~]$ ssh-agent > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-NoFCr14079/agent.14079; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; > SSH_AGENT_PID=14080; export SSH_AGENT_PID; > echo Agent pid 14080; > [stuart@lanky ~]$ ssh-add > Enter passphrase for /home/stuart/.ssh/id_dsa: > > that just wants the password so it can cache it. > > incidentally, were you really ssh-ing to localhost (borg) earlier? > <quote> > Warning - the authenticity of host 'borg (127.0.0.1)'... can't be > established </quote> > Yes, rsync with ssh, like this: rsync -e "/usr/bin/ssh" -auvz /home/anne/Documentation/ anne@borg:/home/anne/Documentation I don't understand why two days ago I could send several sets of docs over with just one password entry, but I can't now. Caching just didn't seem to be working. It seems to be now, so hopefully putting that entry into Xclients has fixed it. Anne
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