Re: PackageKit via ssh

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/13/2011 3:19 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 07/13/11 12:46 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Would it work if you tried ssh -A -X user@hostname?
>>
>> I've not used that option, and the man page isn't explaining it to me
>> such that I quite understand what it does.
>
> I use it all the time. -A forwards authentication, if you've got an agent
> running. Most likely, you've got ssh-agent as a daemon (check via ps). If
> you've got a key in ~/.ssh/, like id_dsa&  id_dsa.pub, and have used
> ssh-add to add it, and the .pub is in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the
> targets, you can go from one machine to another to another, without have
> to come back.

How does that get you to root on the remote for the install step?  Do 
you have to have your key in root's authorized_keys?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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