Question on ussing ssh-add outside of Xwindows? Is it possible?

[Alex Maynard]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Anthony de Boer wrote:

> Alex Maynard wrote:
>> I'm just wondering if you know whether there is anything simple I could do
>> to fix this or whether I really need to be in X when running ssh-add?
>
> X itself has nothing to do with it, but look at the ssh-agent manpage.
> You have to have an agent running, preferably as parent of the shell

Anthony, Thanks very much. According to the man page it ssh-agent should
automatically start on both X and non-X logins.  Maybe I need to 
reconfigure my non-X login.  Alex


> you're using, or you have to copy a bunch of environment variables
> around.  Ssh-add registers keys with the ssh-agent, and then the ssh or
> scp commands talk to the agent process to get credentials when you want
> to access a remote host.
>
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