Re: Gnome utility for remembering ssh passwords?

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On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 11:26 +0200, David Jansen wrote:
> I have ssh-agent running as soon as I log in, and it seems to be
> referenced in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession, which as far as I know is the
> script started by gdm to start an X session
> 
> As far as I know, I didn't need to do anything to make ssh-agent run 
> 
> Well, I just sent a message to the list regarding a related problem,
> pam_ssh which used to be able to unlock your ssh keys automatically if
> their passphrase was identical to your system password, but that doesn't
> seem to work any more.
> 
> David Jansen
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:27:56AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> > >>>>> "Chris" == Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> >     Chris> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:04:50AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >     >> Since upgrading from fc8 to fc9, my ssh passwords are no longer
> >     >> remembered within a session. What's the utility that does this,
> >     >> and how do I reactivate it?
> > 
> >     Chris> It's ssh-agent.  It used to be run automatically by F8
> >     Chris> (which annoyed me!) but I believe it isn't run
> >     Chris> automatically in F9, try looking at the System Services
> >     Chris> menus and see if there's an ssh-agent activation there.
> > 
> > There isn't.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me how to run it?
> > -- 
> > Colin Adams
> > Preston Lancashire

Please don't top post. It screws up the flow of the thread. Thanks, Ric

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