[ale] automating ssh script

[Michael Hirsch]

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 07:56, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Hey Drew, (take 2!)
> 
>     This seems like a no-brainer to me.  Just to confirm that, I tried it myself,
> and it worked (no passphrase prompt, no password prompt.)
> 
>     First question...when you are generating the keys (type 1 or 2), what are you
> entering for the "Enter passphrase" prompts?  You should hit Enter
> twice without typing anything.  Anything you type here will be 
> prompted for at login.

This is a bad idea.  What he is trying to do is to enable typing in the
passphrase once wen running ssh-agent, then not needing to run it again.

I think Ed's solution is the correct one.

Michael


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