Re: how to invoke SSH-ADD to read passphrase from a file

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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:49:03 -0500

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Michael Heiming wrote:
| In comp.security.ssh Javed <kjaved@ncs.com.sg>:
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|>Hi Richard,
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|>Can you please suggest how should i go for it?
|>Our requirement is such that, we want to use public key based
|>authantication and that too it should contain the passpharase.
|>The problem that i am facing is to automate the whole process.
|>As i cant write a script where i can pass the password as one of the
|>parameter to SSH therefore i went through the process of using
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| [..]
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| Hi Javed!
|
| You perhaps didn't understood what Richard meant? There's no
| point in having a pass-phrase on a key if you are storing the
| pass-phrase on the system in a text file, it's exactly the same as
| if you are using a key without pass-phrase.
|
| If you want to use a passport's but have problems getting
| things working, so you only need to enter the passports after a
| reboot, check out keychain which eases things up:
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| http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/index.xml
|

Freudian slip? When you think about it, that's pretty much what
forwarded authentication is - a passport!
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