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OpenSSH and keychain howto

Contributed by grey on from the superlative tutorial titles, ymmv dept.

Found via http://openwiki.com/ow.asp?p=BSD/Aggregation here is The (Practically) Ultimate OpenSSH/Keychain Howto by Carla Schroder.

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsecur/article.php/3469681

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (65.33.186.77) on




    keychain is a port

    COMMENT= "front-end to ssh-agent"
    CATEGORIES= security
    HOMEPAGE= http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml


  2. By djm@ (203.217.30.86) on

    I don't understand why people need this, ssh-agent is hardly rocket science to figure out. The main advantage seems to be that it facilitates running one ssh-agent per user (instead of one per login), but this can be simply achieved using ssh-agent's "-a" option.

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