On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:18, Andy Green wrote: > > > > Identity added: /home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa) > > Well you're good to go then. Every boot it seems an ssh-agent is > started for you, which is half the battle, creating an empty pocket that > everything can see how to talk to through the environment vars. > > The other half is that once after boot you must do that ssh-add to get > your default key in that pocket with the passphrase so it can give it to > apps that ask for it. After that you should be working. > Right. I had understood that the first time you did anything with ssh it asked the password then cached it, the way gpg-agent does. Thanks for the help and explanations. Anne
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