Re: Keychain problems

On Thursday 26 June 2003 12:25, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> Hello all,
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> Keychain is supposed to write to the file .ssh-agent, but this file is not

Many thanks to Beirne Konarski and Stephen Pedrosa Eilert for pointing out that the howto at:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc2/

contains stale setup information. Daniel Robbins script to be inserted in .bash_profile should read something like:

#on this next line, we start keychain and point it to the private keys that #we'd like it to cache
/usr/bin/keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_dsa source ~/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh > /dev/null

not
source ~/.ssh-agent > /dev/null as stated on the page. The current version of keychain doesn't create ~/.ssh-agent, but rather ~/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh and ~/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-csh.

All working properly now, thanks again both.

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