--On Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:30 PM +0200 Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > SSH keys unprotected by any passphrase should not recommended to anyone! > Very bad. > > Exactly for that scenario - not being requested for a > password/passphrase - there is ssh-agent. Can one retrofit an existing private key with a passphrase?