Re: ssh private key password

[Till Maas]

On Sat January 10 2009, Ron Yorston wrote:
>  Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >Having a session-wide store for keys is awesome, which is why the
>  >old ssh-agent existed in the first place!
>
>  Then it's awesomeness I can do without.  I want to keep control of my
>  ssh credentials and *always* be prompted when something wants to use
>  them.
>
>  My opinion:  gnome-keyring should not act as an ssh agent by default. 
At least the old ssh-add accepts the option "-c", which makes the ssh-agent to 
require a confirmation before it uses the loaded key to authenticate. But this 
seems to be maily interesting  (imho) in case a ssh agent is forwarded.

Regards,
Till