Ssh keys problem

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Mar 21 17:31:06 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> What this is saying is that ssh-agent will now handle that key.
> You will not have to provide the password for that key. But this
> is only true for the shell(s) that are configured to use that
> running ssh-agent. If you are running this on one VT, and you
> are logged into another VT, you will still need to supply the
> password on the second VT, unless you configure it to use the
> same ssh-agent. You run into the same problem if you start
> ssh-agent in one xterm, and try to use it in another xterm. But
> there are versions of ssh-agent that work with Gnome and KDE that
> will work with their terminal programs so that you can use it is
> all the terminals you open.
>
Another essential crumb to add to the loaf, thanks.

Anne
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