Day 2 of 60: SSH agent authentication

Posted by nik on July 11, 2006

I’ve just configured the desktop to prompt me for my SSH credentials once, instead of on every connection, using ssh-agent and an X11 SSH password requestor.

This is bread-and-butter stuff that should be easy, made a little more complex by documentation not being accessible on the Sun site. Since I couldn’t find the correct incantation through Google I’m documenting it here

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