On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:11:51AM +0000, Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Make yourself a key pair with the shh-keygen command and copy the
| > public half into the .ssh/authorized_keys at the far end.
| > Then make sure you have an ssh-agent, and place your key into it with ssh-add.
| > Then no password challenges should happen.
| > --
| I appreciate the help, but I have run into a problem while executing this.
|
| When I run the ssh-add, I get the following error:
| Cound not open a connection to your authentication agent.
|
| The page suggests that an authentication agent must be running to do this,
Yes.
| but I thought that ssh would be the authentication agent.
No.
Say this:
eval `ssh-agent`
That will start one and also tell your shell enough for the other commands
to contact it.
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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