[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access

Anders Holm anders.holm at elivefree.net
Tue Mar 19 11:41:35 GMT 2002


sshadd does not set the environment properly when it's invoked, so these 
variables would have to be set by the script u r using..
Pipe the output to a text file or similar and the export it from the 
script, then you know it is set properly..

Good luck!

At 11:33 19/03/02 +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
>  How is SSH Agent supposed to "work". I've done roughly as Kevin has; I've
>got ssh-agent running, I've got:
>
>SSH_AGENT_PID=8006
>SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
>SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXHx26KN/agent.7860
>
>  Now - how do I SSH somewhere, without a password ? I always get asked,
>even when close the SSH connection & retry (which I thought was the point
>of SSH Agent). I never see the gnome-ssh-askpass program. I have a feeling
>I'm missing something here.
>
>  I'd like to point out that I've tryed ssh-agent a few times, and always
>deleted the config after a few days of noticing nothing happening..
>
>John
>
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