Sorry meant to attach my sshd_config file.. here it is!

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bluethundr bluethundr@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:22 AM Subject: keychain problem To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org

hello centos.. I am having a very annoying problem on my network right now. it looks like every time I try to add my ssh key to keychain I have to issue a command just to get my ssh subsystem communicating with the ssh-agent:

I have this line in my .bashrc file

$(keychain --eval --quick --quiet private_key1 private_key2 private_key3)

If I try to perform ssh-add I get the message:

[bluethundr@VIRTCENT01:~]#ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

So then I try to execute ssh-agent:

bluethundr@amanda:~]#exec ssh-agent bash  * Warning: can't find private_key1; skipping  * Warning: can't find private_key2; skipping  * Warning: can't find private_key3; skipping bash: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-cdJlgq6077/agent.6077;: No such file or directory

Then I can add it.

[bluethundr@amanda:~]#ssh-add Enter passphrase for /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa: Identity added: /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa)

But if I ssh away from this box and then ssh back INTO it.. and then sometime later have to ssh away again it asks me for my ssh key's passphrase. See what I mean by 'annoying problem'?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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