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Re: CVS password
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Richard V. Molen |
Subject: |
Re: CVS password |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:10:49 GMT |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> pocm@mega.ist.utl.pt (Paulo J. Matos) writes:
>
> >> pocm@mega.ist.utl.pt (Paulo J. Matos) writes:
> >>
> >> By using private/public keys and the ssh-agent feature, you don't
> >> need to type the password every time, it is sufficient to tell it
> >> once to the ssh-agent.
> >
> > How can I do that?
>
> Well, this group is about Emacs, not about ssh. And I'm short on
> time. So I suggest to read the man page on ssh-agent ("man
> ssh-agent"). If that isn't sufficient info, I'm sure some other
> group will help, or maybe someone else on this group.
While Kai is right, I can feel your pain. First ssh-agent uses
passphrases, I don't know if this works with passwords. Here's how
I start ssh-agent from a bash prompt...
exec ssh-agent $SHELL
...this replaces your current bash session with the ssh-agent which in
turn spawns(?) a bash shell. Everything that is run from this new
shell have the benefit of not needing a passphrase. But before that
you need to run 'ssh-add' and enter the passphrase once. Then you
can, for example, run 'startx &' to start a GUI that needs no
passphrases.
Here's the FAQ... great place to start. Hope this helps.
http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/ssh-faq-1.html
Richard V. Molen
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