On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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. > Another essential crumb to add to the loaf, thanks. Anne
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