What is responsible for the functions of an ssh-agent in Slackware's xfce?
by Lockywolf from LinuxQuestions.org on (#51DA0)
I am running ssh -A so that ssh connections can be easily nested. That is, I connect from laptop1 to, say, a machine1 with ssh -A machine1, and then I can connect to machine 2 from machine1, even though machine1 doesn't have id_rsa keys in .ssh, because ssh forwards authentication requests to the agent running on laptop1.
The problem is, every time I do it, I have to run ssh-add in to manually cache the keys on laptop1:~/.ssh/id_rsa
However, we have some password management facilities in Slackware as well, something polkit-related, or something like that. I.e., there should be some GUI guy started on xfce login, that would ask for a passphrase and instantiate the ssh-agent.
Who is this guy, and how do I explicitly make it cache ~/.ssh/id_rsa ?
The problem is, every time I do it, I have to run ssh-add in to manually cache the keys on laptop1:~/.ssh/id_rsa
However, we have some password management facilities in Slackware as well, something polkit-related, or something like that. I.e., there should be some GUI guy started on xfce login, that would ask for a passphrase and instantiate the ssh-agent.
Who is this guy, and how do I explicitly make it cache ~/.ssh/id_rsa ?