Request for review: keychain

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 01:52 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> keychain: agent manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH, and GnuPG
> 
> Keychain is a manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH and GnuPG agents. It
> acts as a front-end to the agents, allowing you to easily have one
> long-running agent process per system, rather than per login session.
> This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your
> passphrase from once per new login session to once every time your local
> machine is rebooted.
> 
> I promote keychain as a very handy tool which offers the nice
> possibility to use passphrase protected keys through cronjobs, i.e. for
> scheduled, unattended backup jobs.
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/

Would this warrant an entry in /etc/profile.d to load it on login?

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72
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