On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:21:27AM +0100, Aris Adamantiadis wrote: >stealing the password (keypress sniffer, console sniffer, ...) or by >fetching the decrypted key in the user agent. Or using ssh-agent directly. A lot of people have those set up so they enter the passphrase once and then never again until they logout/reboot. Mike Stone