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id_rsa works
Authored by: lullabud on Jun 01, '05 01:00:56PM

I don't use ssh with the keychain at all, just the standard id_rsa stuff, and that works fine for me. This is sweet. :) ssh bookmark + quicksilver's safari plugin = easy remote shell access.



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id_rsa works
Authored by: jaysoffian on Jun 01, '05 08:42:45PM

That means that your private key is not password protected. So should someone break into your machine, they can easily login to any account you've copied your public key to. Even worse, they can look at your .ssh/known_hosts file to find a convenient list of all those accounts.

You really should passphrase protect your private key and then use ssh-agent. You'll have the same level of convenience, but quite a bit more security. And it's easy with the application mentioned in the previous comment (though personally, I've rolled my own solution and that's posted here as well as a series of three hints.)



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