I've used a nifty frontend bash script to ssh-agent called keychain. You can get it here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml
Also the author has a good 3 part howto available here: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
* Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de) on [040328 10:53] thus spake:
Am So, den 28.03.2004 schrieb Steve Searle um 12:46:
Many moons ago I set up my (then RH) Linux box to pass the current password automatically when SSHing to another box. If I was logged on as steve, and I did "ssh myserver" it would take me straight to a shell on myserver, logged on as steve, assuming the steve account on myserver had the same password as the box I was coming from. I was not asked for the password.
Does anyone know what I need to change to change my current setup to work like this.
Cheers
Steve
A reader friendly howto what you did set up is to be found here:
http://fedoranews.org/dowen/sshkeys/
Alexander
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