Repost: [patch] Automatically add keys to agent

Roumen Petrov openssh at roumenpetrov.info
Sun Jan 17 22:19:15 EST 2010


Joachim Schipper wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:24:34AM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote:
>> My keys are secured with a passphrase. That's good for security, but
>> having to type the passphrase either at every login or at every
>> invocation of ssh(1) is annoying.
>
>> 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.

[SNIP]
Why to use this as I could use IdentitiesOnly and IdentityFile per host 
as initially I could load  all required keys info agent ?
May be instead new option you could enhance existing option 
IdentitiesOnly with ask.

Roumen


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