Re: Oh dear - another clueless 'setenv DISPLAY' question...
Re: Oh dear - another clueless 'setenv DISPLAY' question...
- Subject: Re: Oh dear - another clueless 'setenv DISPLAY' question...
- From: James Elliott <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:16:36 -0500
If you're using private keys without passphrases, you're leaving
lockpicking tools lying around in your filesystem that anyone could
use trivially to compromise your other systems.
The ssh-agent support built into Leopard lets you stick to sane
security practices, and take advantage of the Keychain application to
provide the passphrase for your private key when ssh needs it, so you
have convenience *and* security.
-Jim
On Oct 10, 2008, at 15:39, Jamie Kennea wrote:
On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:55 PM, James Elliott wrote:
Hopefully this article will get you going:
http://www.mactips.org/archives/2007/12/20/using-passwordless-ssh-the-easy-guide-leopard-only/
I don't get why they list this method as "Leopard Only". I've been
doing this exact thing for years, on Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. As
far as I can see this method has everything to do with ssh keys and
nothing to do with the Mac OS X keychain at all. Odd.
It does work great though.
Jamie
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