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OS X Keychain keeps prompting me for my SSH passphrase even though I save it (OS X 10.6.8)
Every time I log in to a remote server with SSH, OS X keychain prompts me to remember the SSH passphrase. I type in the passphrase and check the box to remember it. I then connect ok to the server but ...
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SSH, passphrases, keychains, Could not open a connection to your authentication agent
I will be very surprised if anyone has the answer to this. I have googled for a long time but no luck.
As an iOS developer who will shortly be welcoming a new team member I want to set up a ...
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How can I permanently add my SSH private key to Keychain so it is automatically available to ssh?
It seems that ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa will load your key but will ask for the password each time you reboot.
I am looking for a solution that would not require me to re-enter the key password ...
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How to configure and use multiple ssh RSA keys with Keychain help
I am looking for a solution that would automatically load multiple RSA keys at login, some of them having passwords stored in the Keychain.
Example: first keys would be obviously in ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ...
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What's the best way to login to remote servers?
I'm currently logging in to a remote server by opening terminal, starting ssh-agent, adding a key, launching xterm and then connecting via ssh.
What tools should I be using for this? I've looked at ...
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How to fix a Lion upgrade that killed SSH keys?
I just upgraded to Lion and find now that my ssh keys are not working properly when trying to log into various servers via SSH.
I've checked permissions on the ~/.ssh directory and the ...
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Where does Mac OS X store the ssh passwords?
Some time ago Sourceforge forced everybody to change the Passwords. A real pain since I use a lot of automated scripts.
One of them uses ssh connection to upload the newest passwords. This one is not ...
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Keychain won't remember my SSH password when connecting to server
I routinely develop on two different servers.
One server requires my private SSH key stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa. This part of the story works fine.
The other server should not require any SSH keys, yet ...
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Problem with ssh agent
I'm having a problem using ssh agent to make sure I don't have to enter a password each time a certain program uses my id_rsa private key.
I did ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa and it seemed to add an entry ...
