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Better security
By not using a passphrase, anyone that has access to your keyboard also has access to any hosts you've set up with this nice password-free access. Access to your filesystem is enough unfortunately. Security wise this is not a god solution. In my hint "Secure and easy OpenSSH key management" you hava a solution that is secure and almost as easy.
Better security
ironically, by using keychain you are still susceptible to anyone with access to your file system. any use who would be able to compromise your ssh identity files would also be able to compromise your .ssh-agent file that keychain creates, thus being able to ssh as you using your instance of ssh-agent by simply "source ~you/.ssh-agent" in their shell.
Re: Better security
You are right that the security with Keychain/ssh-agent is not fullproof, but I think it's a magnitud better than to use no password at all for your SSH-key.
re: Better security
> I'm still looking for a way to get ssh-agent to start up as the parent of my
> OSX login session.
Actually, Kevin Van Vechten wrote a tool that does exactly what you ask for: SSHAgentServices for Mac OS X
I just discovered it recently and have been very pleased with it.
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