Re: Keychain problems

From: Fergus Wilde (fwilde_at_chethams.org.uk)
Date: 06/27/03

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    On Thursday 26 June 2003 12:25, Fergus Wilde wrote:
    > Hello all,
    >
    > I'm trying to get D. Robbins' keychain working on a SuSE 8.2 machine, and
    > not managing it.
    <snipped>
    > Keychain is supposed to write to the file .ssh-agent, but this file is not
    > created; creating it empty with touch just leaves it sitting their empty,
    > keychain isn't writing to it.
    >
    > Anyone have any clues? I am not keen on the null passphrase key approach

    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.

    > ... Best
    > Fergus 

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