On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 16:21 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:54:22 +0200 > Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Yes, just the same kind of UI prompts for SSH and GPG keys. > > > > I have several SSH keys I load into ssh-agent at first login and thus > > get several UI input popups initiated by keychain. As well the keyring > > request for my wireless WPA key. Can't think of a way a single > > application would reduce the onetime amount of passphrase requests. > > Well, theoretically you'd allow gnome-keyring to save all those > passphrases and then you'd have a master passphrase (different from the > rest) that would allow gnome-keyring to dole them out as needed. But > yes, that puts all your eggs in the gnome-keyring basket and relying on > the strength of your master keyring. I always make sure my login > password/phrase is different than that of my master keyring phrase, and > that is different from any of the passphrases in my ring. It is not particularly elegant as such but I made a package based on code from this page that Works for Me... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_gnome-keyring_to_store_SSH_passphrases -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
