Re: [PLUG] ssh oddity (continued)

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:58:06AM -0400, Paul L. Snyder wrote:
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> Quoting Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>:
> 
> > The man page for ssh-add also tells me that I can do much more
> > sophisticated key management: I can delete keys from the agent, add
> > them with expiration, and even password protect (temporarily turn off)
> > the agent.  Very cool.
> 
> This isn't actually relevant to your just-resolved problem, but there's a nice
> wrapper script for ssh-agent called keychain which is convenient in some cases.
>  It lets you conveniently reuse an established ssh-agent between different
> logons on the same machine, saving retyping of passphrases on machines you control.
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml

Or at the command line, this bit of bash does that, too:

    ssh-reagent ()
    {
	eval `ps ewx | grep ssh-agent | tr ' ' '\n' | \
	    grep SSH_ | sort -u | awk '{ print "export " $0; }'`;
    }

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 Jeff

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