"D" <dsc@clara.net> writes:

Anyone ever got this to work? Not sat down and tried yet but a guy I was talking to yesterday said its harder then it looks, surely you just need the host keys etc.. and your away.

I have eval $(ssh-agent) quite early in my .xsession file. This makes sure everything in my X session knows where to find the key manager. Then using ssh-add lets me add keys to it. You generate ssh keys with ssh-keygen and have to copy the right one to the target machine's $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Other than that, it's fairly simple... ask questions if you want more than the manual pages say. I even have a VPN using slip over ssh, for when I need to appear to be on an internal network somewhere.