Re: CVS - SSH question

[Mike Castle]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:17:21AM -0400, Robert Briggs wrote:
> Greetings,
>       My question is how to get WinCVS to work with SSH without having to
> enter the password in the SSH window with every command that is executed.

This is more of an ssh question really, and might be better answered in an
ssh specific forum (say, the newsgroup comp.security.ssh).

But, one way is to use ssh-keygen to create a public/private key pair, and
put the public key on the remote side (don't use a passphrase, of course).

But this doesn't realy offer a lot of security.  Anyone with physical
access can then take your private key and use it wherever they like.

I'm not sure how useful something like ssh-agent is in this case, I have
no experience with it.  But maybe that's what you need.

mrc
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