You're right, I avoided the use of passphrases and carefully considered the loss of security imposed by that and thus I do not need ssh-agent... It's been so long ago, that I just forgot about those consequences...
matthias H.S. wrote: > Morche Matthias wrote: >> You just want to connect from one host to another one. It's totally >> sufficient to set up the key and copy the public part into authorized >> keys on the remote host. I never used ssh-agent nor ssh-add and > > 1. I did that. So why I am asked for my SSH passphrase when I try to > SSH from my local machine to remote machine? > > 2. In your situation, do you have pass phrases for SSH or not? ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
