passwordless SSH

[Soo-Hyun Choi]

Yes, that's true. But, what I would like to do is also avoiding
executing the ssh-agent by hand after X window start up. Is there any
way that I start ssh-agent automatically together with X window when I
boot up the system?

Thanks,

On Apr 7, 2005 1:42 AM, Brett Johnson <brett at hp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:28 +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> > $ ssh <remote_machine>
> > Enter passphrase for key '/home/my_id/.ssh/id_rsa':
> >
> >
> > How do I avoid keep typing the passphrase whenever I do ssh?
> 
> This is what ssh-agent is for.  Type "ssh-add" after you start up your X
> session to load your key into ssh-agent.  Then, as long as that X
> session remains live, you'll be able to ssh/scp/rsync/etc... without
> typing your passphrase.
> 
> --
> Brett Johnson <brett at hp.com>
> 
>