[CentOS] ssh-agent

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> On 4/6/2010 2:04 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
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>> And, for the bigger picture, why should it? If I'm logging off, there's
>> no reason for it to keep running. Any sessions that required it are
>> either established, or shut down.
>
> That's one of the things it can do.  If you don't like it, use some
> other option.  I assume it can feed cron jobs and the like when you
> aren't logged in if you want - but I've always just made keys with no
> passphrase when I know the commands will be automated.

No passphrase? Then why use it?

At any rate, that's not going to happen here (or anywhere I've worked):
even if I was willing to do that (which I'm not), none of my managers
would have allowed it.

I use my passphrase every morning for the private key I use. But then, I
log out at *home* every night, and the only living other creatures in my
apt are the fish.... Paranoia about black bag jobs? Not for any good
reason, but....

         mark "and don't have t-bird save my password, either"