SSH: Ditch your passwords

Contributed by mk/reverse on 2004-12-04 from the this-makes-me-forget-my-sudo-password dept.

Brian Hatch has written two nice articles for SecurityFocus on avoiding having to use your passwords when using SSH for remote logon.

If you are using SSH a lot when working, e.g. for CVS access, you should definitely read this nice introduction to using SSH keys for single sign-on. It will make you work a lot faster while improving security.

The first part is here, and the second part is here.

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By Brian (205.161.1.46) on 2004-12-04 04:47

If any of you are using macs and terminal.app, how do you go about using ssh-agent? I'm currently manually running a shell script that starts ssh-agent and writes the enviroment variables to a file that is read automatically by the shell's profile.

Maybe someone is aware of a more elegant solution?
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1. By jose (68.40.238.70) on 2004-12-04 05:51 http://monkey.org/~jose/
  
  i think this is the app my friends who use os x use:
  http://www.phil.uu.nl/~xges/ssh/
  works like a champ.
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  1. By jose (68.40.238.70) on 2004-12-04 05:53 http://monkey.org/~jose/
    
    oh look, here's another! http://www.sshkeychain.org/screenshots.php
    
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    By Brian (205.161.1.46) on 2004-12-05 04:27
    
    I installed it am running it now. It seems to work great and eliminates the need for a proxy script that I've been using to forward ports.
By SeppoE (217.226.12.93) on 2004-12-04 13:52

I'm receivung nothing but microsoft ad, top'ed by some href code snippet.
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1. By blake (209.145.230.49) blake@ekalb.net on 2004-12-04 22:25
  
  I've been using SSHKeychain for about a year. I highly recommend this app for OS X users! The new built-in tunneling feature is great. :)
By Anonymous Coward (207.58.193.33) on 2004-12-08 04:23

ssh-agent definitely saves you the hassle of distributing public keys between combination of servers

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