Re: creative ssh-agent uses

2006-12-09 Thread Ratiu Petru
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote: > Dear Ratiu, > > I am not sure I understand your situation, but maybe this can help? > > When creating an ssh-key using ssh-keygen, it prompts you for a > passphrase. It isn't so obvious, but you can simply hit return at that > point to have "no passp

Re: creative ssh-agent uses

2006-12-09 Thread Brett Parker
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:44:54AM -0800, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote: > Dear Ratiu, > > I am not sure I understand your situation, but maybe this can help? > > When creating an ssh-key using ssh-keygen, it prompts you for a > passphrase. It isn't so obvious, but you can simply hit return at that > poi

Re: creative ssh-agent uses

2006-12-09 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Dear Ratiu, I am not sure I understand your situation, but maybe this can help? When creating an ssh-key using ssh-keygen, it prompts you for a passphrase. It isn't so obvious, but you can simply hit return at that point to have "no passphrase". This means that the resulting key is unencrypted

Re: creative ssh-agent uses

2006-12-07 Thread Ratiu Petru
On Thu, 07 Dec 2006, Stefan Denker wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:25:38PM +0200, Ratiu Petru wrote: > > What I'm thinking is to provide a static string as a challenge and use the > > response as the cryptodevice password, but I can't find a program that > > allows me to manipulate the socket

Re: creative ssh-agent uses

2006-12-07 Thread Stefan Denker
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:25:38PM +0200, Ratiu Petru wrote: > What I'm thinking is to provide a static string as a challenge and use the > response as the cryptodevice password, but I can't find a program that > allows me to manipulate the socket this way. This mechanism might also be > used for o

Re: creative ssh-agent uses

2006-12-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 04 December 2006 20:25, Ratiu Petru wrote: [using ssh-agent to spit out a key for crypto fs] No idea if this is of any help, but IIRC the newest versions of gpg-agent are quite generic, and can also replace ssh-agent. So there's a security-item agent program which is written by design

creative ssh-agent uses

2006-12-04 Thread Ratiu Petru
It all started when i wanted to use a encrypted filesystem for my personal backups: I have a script that I run after I log in to the backup server, it asks me the passphrase for the encrypted storage, mounts it, and begins the rsync-over-ssh backup script which connects back to my workstation, all