[olug] keychain work for anyone?

Mike Hostetler thehaas at binary.net
Wed Feb 19 14:27:44 UTC 2003


On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:26:01PM -0600, Brian Wiese wrote:
> So I'm running keychain, but it's not working - doesn't do anything for
> me.  Does it work for anyone else?  To my understanding, when keychain is
> run - it asks for your passphrase to your private ssh keys, and will keep
> you authenticated as it negotiate future ssh sessions for you that ask for
> you to authenticate via said public keys.

it works great for me. This is what I have in my ~/.bashrc:

				if [ "$PS2" ] ; then
					/usr/bin/keychain ~/.ssh/id_dsa
					. ~/.keychain/`uname -n`-sh
				fi
Which is a bit different than what you tried.  Try that and see if it
works.

-- mikeh




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