Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:22:54 +0700 From: John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ssh-agent and ssh-add? Message-ID: <20010206112253.E18364@office.naver.co.id> In-Reply-To: <20010205200057.B82933@mollari.cthul.hu>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:00:57PM -0800 References: <20010206093155.B11011@office.naver.co.id> <20010205200057.B82933@mollari.cthul.hu>
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:00:57PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >They let you cache your SSH credentials locally and forward them on to >other systems you connect to, so you don't have to type your >passphrase more than once. Interesting... After reading this, I try to run it. I'm on KDE's konsole: $ ssh-agent setenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/ssh-xNYNtyGM/agent.42177; setenv SSH_AGENT_PID 42186; echo Agent pid 42186; $ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. Hmm... something I did wrong? This is on -CURRENT >Be careful when using agent forwarding to connect to an untrusted >system, as you are essentially handing over a decrypted copy of your >RSA key to the remote system, and it can use it to impersonate you on >other systems where that key has access. Advice noted, thanks ;) >Kris /john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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