[PATCH] Caching passphrase in ssh-add.

Markus Friedl markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Jan 9 09:42:53 EST 2001


On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:03:58PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>  2. Remember the last successful passphrase and attempt to use it on
> 	subsequent key files which are added.

i don't like this feature. i don't want to encourage people
to reuse the same passphrase for different keys.

> Is the SSHv2 protocol fundamentally incapable of using RSA keys for
> authentication, or is that (RSA on v2) a missing feature of OpenSSH?

http://bass.directhit.com/openssh_snap supports RSA in V2 (but
you need to generate a special RSA keys for v2).

-m





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