Re: different SSH/keychain behavior on Fedora Core 4?

From: Cameron Mura (cmura_at_ucsd.edu)
Date: 09/07/05

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    hi,
    just another piece of data regarding my earlier post (below) -- i found
    that when I issue a command like "konsole -e ssh some.where.com" from a
    konsole window, then the newly generated konsole window which is
    logged-in to the remote shell opens just fine (i.e., without passphrase
    prompting)... but when I define a new KDE panel button (as described
    below) with this 'konsole' command, I am again greeted with the
    passphrase request...
    so somehow this new FC4 behavior (wrt FC3) seems to be depend upon the
    newer KDE/SSH/etc packages standard in FC4?..

    === Cameron Mura wrote (on 09/06/2005 06:31 PM): ===

    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm wondering if anyone's seen different SSH and keychain behavior on
    > Fedora Core 4 versus its predecessors (FC3, in particular) ?
    > ("keychain" is the Gentoo ssh-agent wrapper... allows a user to make a
    > single passphrase entry per machine reboot, not per login.)
    >
    > The reason I'm asking is that I used to be able to set-up keychain and
    > have it run smoothly (i.e., password-less and passphrase-less logins)
    > from my FC3 machine at home to various boxes at work (running CentOS,
    > FC3, RH9, etc.)... To streamline things, I have buttons configured on
    > the KDE console bar of my home desktop such that they're mapped to
    > commands like "ssh -Y -l me where.ever.com <http://where.ever.com>"
    > ("Run in terminal" option checked, of course)... so I would basically
    > have 1-click solutions to drop me into shells on various work
    > machines. But since upgrading the home machine to FC4 this trick no
    > longer works and the terminal which is opened up on the remote machine
    > still asks me for the passphrase for the local RSA private key...
    > interestingly, I'm not prompted for a passphrase if I manually "ssh -Y
    > -l me where.ever.com <http://where.ever.com>" from a terminal on my
    > home machine to the remote work machine...
    >
    > I realize that this may be more of an SSH question than an actual
    > Fedora issue, but still I'm wondering if anyone's seen any similar
    > behavior, are aware of any changes in default SSH
    > behavior/configuration between FC3 and FC4, or otherwise have any clue
    > about this behavior?
    >
    > Thanks for any advice!,
    > Cameron 

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