On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:50, Ian Malone wrote: > On 15/11/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Under my FC4 installs I am asked for the ssh passphrase at login time. > > This box, FC6, does not ask me. Instead I am asked when I first open a > > terminal. Normally this causes no problem. However, today I had to go > > out early and did not open a terminal until a few minutes ago. I find > > that an rsync across the network was refused permission - presumably > > because I had not made this 'first step'. > > > > What is the reason for the change in behaviour? What would I have to do > > if I wanted to keep the old behaviour? If it's not advisable, why not? > > Afraid I can't help, but I haven't upgraded to FC6 yet and I'm curious: > 1. You don't have to login to the desktop? Yes, I log in as normal. On FC4 I then was asked for the shh passphrase. > 2. You are asked to login on opening an xterm (or gnome-terminal etc.)? > Not exactly. I'm asked for the ssh passphrase there. In FC4 I used to see a message that indicated that ssh was up and running, but I can't remember the wording. Something like 'the key xxxxxxxx' is in use'. I'm sure it wasn't that, but something like that. Now I have to give the passphrase there, and I see 'Identity added: /home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/anne/.ssh/id_dsa)'. The reason I'm using keychain is that I run a short script that rsyncs certain directories of my work onto my server. That way I'm assured that I never lose more than 3 hours of work, excepting the extreme catastrophe of both boxes have disk failures at the same time. Anne
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