SSH question
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang+gnus200611 at dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com
Wed Nov 15 17:45:51 UTC 2006
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> writes:
> 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?
As one of your first acts after logging in you can do an "ssh-add"
from a terminal window. That way your ssh-agent has a valid key for
you and doesn't have to prompt you each time (on a per connection
basis).
It would be good if someone got pam/gdm working well enough together
to store your unix password as a candidate password for ssh keys.
That way one could choose the same password for both situations and
only have to type a password once.
-wolfgang
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