Agent forwarding with DSA keys?

[John Horne]

On 22-Sep-00 at 11:33:55 Wallace, Mark, CTR, OSD/ATL wrote:
> How do you manage to ssh-add your dsa key?
> When I try that, I'm informed that it is a bad key file...
> 
Missed the thread on this, but in my .bash_profile file I have:

        eval `ssh-agent` >/dev/null
        SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/ssh/ssh-askpass
        export SSH_ASKPASS

        ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa

Works fine - using redhat 6.1.

John.

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