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On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Why not do the obvious thing instead? |
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> Run keychain and have it unlock your keys *once* when the workstation |
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> boots up. ssh then always uses that key as it is unlocked. |
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Alan, |
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Thank you. FYI, I do not have a problem typing my password 100 times |
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per day. The only problem I have with "pinentry" is that it doesn't |
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let me paste. Does keychain allow me to paste? If so, I'll consider |
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it. However, now that I have killed pinentry from my system I am |
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happily pasting my passphrase into the ssh console. |
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On another note, from my OP, I am still curious how the ssh software |
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knows to use /usr/bin/pinentry to fetch my passphrase. In a follow-up |
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post, I discovered that this mechanism only works if an environment |
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variable called GPG_AGENT_INFO is set. I doubt the ssh source code |
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contains the string "/usr/bin/pinentry" or "GPG_AGENT_INFO". |
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Chris |