[aklug] ssh-agent?

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Okay... I've used ssh connections with password based authentication,
and I've used ssh connections with PKI based authentication (upload the
public key to remote server, no password needed, blah blah blah...)

But I saw somebody do something weird the other day: Instead of using
'ssh <hostname>' and then his password, he did this: first he executed
the command 'ssh-agent', then he executed the output of that command in
the shell, and then he was able to run 'ssh <hostname>' without typing
in his password.

I read the ssh-agent MAN page, but it still isn't quite clear to me what
was going on.

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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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Received on Sun Aug 1 19:22:34 2010