From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp and ssh-agent / ssh-add Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:26:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zlsg8ghk.fsf@gmx.de> <87ve335odz.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206959346 16641 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2008 10:29:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tim X Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 12:29:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JgHGi-0001RG-HW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgHG3-0004l6-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:28:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgHDC-0004X8-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgHD5-0004Tu-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgHD4-0004T5-Bi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.alcatel.de ([194.113.59.96]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgHD3-0006YE-LC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:25:49 -0400 Original-Received: from slbhab.alcatel.de (slbhab.bln.sel.alcatel.de [149.204.63.218]) by mailrelay2.alcatel.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/ICT) with ESMTP id m2VAPkMl022052; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:25:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ve335odz.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (Tim X.'s message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:44:08 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (hpux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 149.204.45.73 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52897 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > If you use gnome, you can take advantage of 'seahorse', which provides a > unified way of handling ssh and gpg keys and other things security > related. With seahorse, you are prompted for the passphrase the first > time you try to do something that requires a key and then it manages > things for you so that on subsequent requests for the key, it is all > handled in the background. D'accord. But Roland has the use case to run Emacs on a remote host. He even doesn't start ssh-agent there, which would do the job. > Tim Best regards, Michael.