Re: Howto about: Setting up ssh so it doesn't ask you for a password.

Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I had problems with setting up ssh, so that it uses ssh-agent.
> > I followed https://www.debian.org/devel/passwordlessssh but I failed.
> > The problem was, I simply used "ssh-add" as in the example at the bottom.
> > But my ssh key is ~/.ssh/id_alioth, and that way ssh-add without any
> > arguments does not find it. Why I named my key file like this? I followed 
> > an howto somewhere here on d.o or on Alioth, I don't remember exactly.
> > Because of this, there is chance that more people stumble over this like me.
> > 
> > So I suggest this change:
> > 
> > - ssh-add
> > + ssh-add <filename of ssh key>
> > 
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> If noone objects, I will commit this shortly.

Done.
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