oops ... cant use email though :)

From: keith
To: cl@isbd.net
Subject: RE: [ALUG] Some success with seahorse and gnome-keyring-daemon at last
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:41:32 +0000

> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:41:06 +0000
> From: cl@isbd.net
> To: main@lists.alug.org.uk
> Subject: [ALUG] Some success with seahorse and gnome-keyring-daemon at last
>
> Now I'm off to those external systems to make them a bit more secure
> as regards logging into the home system. It's a pity there aren't any
> 'hooks' in ssh-agent and login that would allow you to do the same for
> direct ssh logins as happens with Gnome/KDE, then you could do the
> same sort of thing and enter only one password for connecting onwards.

Or do you mean passwordless SSH logins? Yes you can. One method is here...
http://www.linuxconfig.org/Passwordless_ssh
.. but you needto make sure ssh-agent is running to add the keys to the remote system.

Keith

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