> > Why not just use authorized_keys with an empty pass phrase? Because that is discouraged due to security. Exactly right. I'm using authorized_keys on the remote host. But I have a long, complex passphrase on my private RSA key on my workstation. I think it's a little foolish to not do that, and in addition it's prohibited by company policy to use keypairs for ssh without passphrases. What I'm trying to do is manage that passphrase in my bashrc using ssh-askpass so I don't have to type it in every time. Use keychain[1]. It is provided by the ghettoforge repository for > instance. Repoforge has it too. I've never heard of either. But I guess I could give it a shot. However my preference would be to find the right bash snippet to pop into my bashrc to allow me to do what I'm trying. Thanks, Tim On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote: > Am 02.03.2014 19:16, schrieb Joseph Spenner: > > > Why not just use authorized_keys with an empty pass phrase? > > Because that is discouraged due to security. > > Alexander > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B