John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/13/11 12:46 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Would it work if you tried ssh -A -X user at hostname? > > I've not used that option, and the man page isn't explaining it to me > such that I quite understand what it does. I use it all the time. -A forwards authentication, if you've got an agent running. Most likely, you've got ssh-agent as a daemon (check via ps). If you've got a key in ~/.ssh/, like id_dsa & id_dsa.pub, and have used ssh-add to add it, and the .pub is in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the targets, you can go from one machine to another to another, without have to come back. mark