Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:23:57 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail Message-ID: <199802271623.JAA04203@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19980227171824.59113@follo.net> References: <19980227101302.39170@follo.net> <472.888572485@time.cdrom.com> <199802271615.JAA04081@mt.sri.com> <19980227171824.59113@follo.net>
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> > > Yes, ssh-agent is a good idea. Starting it on your window manager is, > > > however, not such a good idea since it won't include any of the > > > clients in your .xsession/.xinitrc and some of those are usually > > > xterms in the typical scenario. Far better to have (assuming that > > > you're using xdm and .xsession): > > > > What does ssh-agent do? I've never used it, nor had any reason to. > > It proxies authentication requests, so you don't have to type your > password (or private key passphrase) when using ssh to login > somewhere. Very convenient if you do a lot of remote work (which I > do). Ahh, so if I don't have a passphrase (shhhhh), then it doesn't buy me anything? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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