Repost: [patch] Automatically add keys to agent

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sun Jan 17 11:28:59 EST 2010


On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Joachim Schipper wrote:

> > Hence, this patch. I'll just quote ssh_config(5):
> > 
>      AddKeyToAgent
>        If this option is set to ``yes'' and ssh-agent(1) is running, any
>        keys used will be added to the agent (with the default lifetime).
>        Setting this to ``ask'' will cause ssh to require confirmation
>        using the SSH_ASKPASS program before the key is added (see
>        ssh-add(1) for details).  The argument must be ``yes'', ``ask'',
>        or ``no''.  The default is ``no''.
> 
> I am a bit disappointed by the total lack of response - does nobody else
> have this problem? I'm willing to do more work on it, if so desired, and
> I wouldn't mind having to wait until OpenBSD 4.7 is tagged if everyone's
> too busy right now.

Please file it at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/ so it doesn't get lost.
We can take a look at it after OpenSSH-5.4 ships.

-d


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