On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:39:41PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Chris G wrote: [...]
I also think that 'selling' Public Key authenticated logins as 'passwordless' is misleading. [...]
Not really, because you're only typing the password in to allow the agent to access the key, rather than typing it in every time you access the remote system. Once per sit at the keyboard is much harder to shoulder-surf than once per connection.
... but it's still not passwordless, unless by that is meant less as in not so much! :-)
I think I also struggled to find gnome-keyring documentation but I think the basic mechanics of loading the keys in should be similar to ssh-agent. It's the specifics of what key and passphrase does what that may differ.
It turns out that part of my problem is that is doesn't work! I.e. as delivered it's broken. I'm slowly creeping towards getting it working but now I know that I'm actually trying to debug it things are becoming a little easier.