Subject: Re: ssh passphrase question.
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/27/1998 18:27:59
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:
: # Aty first login, run "ssh-add", which will prompt you for your passphrase,
: # and ssh-agent will take care of all your authentication until you log out.
: # See the ssh-agent(8) page for more info; note that running ssh-agent in the
: # background instead of as a parent of your shell is *not* recommended.
:
: Does this work with xdm at all? Ie: could I run ssh-agent inside the xdm
: startup, and then ssh-add myself when I log in?
Sure; make ssh-agent a parent of the window manager that you exec at the end
of .xinitrc.
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