Re: SSH keys

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, when I did a "echo $SSH_variable" the values
weren't there.  I manually loaded them and I was able
to get to where instead of the passWORD it wanted the
passPHRASE.  A zero percent improvement for my
purposes.

Anyway, I ended up just running ssh_keygen and then
copying the public keys and cat'ing them into the
"authorized_keys" file.  Then I could scp without a
password between systems.

Q: Is this still fairly secure?

--- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> Robert Threet said:
> > I am trying to automate SSH so I won't have to use
> the
> > password to log in.  When I type ssh-agent
> followed by
> > ssh-add it complains "Failed to connect to
> > authentication agent - agent not running?" even
> though
> > the agent *IS* running.  It's something silly - I
> know.
> 
> You have to specify the command to run under
> ssh-agent as an argument
> to ssh-agent.
> 
> I usually use one of the following.  Either this
> bash alias:
> 
>     alias ssh-auth="exec ssh-agent sh -c 'ssh-add &&
> exec bash -login'"
> 
> or something like this in ~/.Xclients (or .xinitrc,
> or whatever):
> 
>     exec ssh-agent sh -c 'ssh-add < /dev/null &&
> exec wmaker'
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Steve
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