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Authored by: nyarlathotep on Aug 31, '03 11:44:59AM

That is a nice tip too thanks, but if you cared enough to have a pasword on your ssh-private keys, wouldn't you just be using ssh-agent? I don't care what any sysadmin says about autoomated logins, the least secure thing in the world is for me to continually be typing my passphrase into scp/ssh sesssions right in front of students. Sure, the passphrase is only good on that one machine, but it gives out a lot of general information about what my passphrases look like. No pasephrase is possibly more secure.. and ssh-agent is obviously the "only right way."

You might need to pull some stunts for the inetd spawned ssh processses to know about the ssh-agent, but I can imagine several ways of doing that.



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