On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:49 PM James Moe <jimoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 9/14/18 5:07 AM, Darren Tucker wrote: > > >> Is there a recommended way to provide the decryption passphrase? > > > > it's possible but tricky by writing a custom SSH_ASKPASS program, but > > that doesn't buy you much over having the key unencrypted (ie both the > > key and the passphrase needed to decrypt it have to readable by your > > user). > > > I decided it is no burden to manually run the script. There is an old, and stable, tool called "keypass". It's a perl script used to activate an ssh-agent and load a copy of its generated environment variables into a file that can be "sourced", typicall $HOME/.keypass/$HOSTNAME.sh I've found it quite useful to pre-load an ssh-agent for later use by a particular application, especially if I wanted to have to reload the ssh-agent for cron or other automated operation. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
