Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 14:41, Andy Green wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote: >>>> 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? >> What do you mean "creates id_dsa"? ssh-add does not create >> ~/.ssh/id_dsa. It may read it, that's all. >> > Badly worded - > > Identity added: /home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa) > > Anne > What this is saying is that ssh-agent will now handle that key. You will not have to provide the password for that key. But this is only true for the shell(s) that are configured to use that running ssh-agent. If you are running this on one VT, and you are logged into another VT, you will still need to supply the password on the second VT, unless you configure it to use the same ssh-agent. You run into the same problem if you start ssh-agent in one xterm, and try to use it in another xterm. But there are versions of ssh-agent that work with Gnome and KDE that will work with their terminal programs so that you can use it is all the terminals you open. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
