Request for review: keychain

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 20:54 -0700, Chip Turner wrote:
> It would be nicer to have some sort of opt-in, perhaps in the form of
> ~/.keychainrc, which, if present, causes it to be source'd and then,
> if set, use an environment variable KEYS to list the keys the user
> wants, otherwise default to id_dsa.  This way a user just specifies
> their keys that feed the command line (and perhaps other command line
> options such as timeout).


+1 -- the above opt-in and the idea that a user can specify the keys or
a glob (filename matching pattern) is cool

And perhaps call it KEYCHAIN_KEYS since KEYS is pretty generic?

Ed

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