[KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network

[Richard Zimmerman]

> Now that sounds like a solution!  I've never bothered to wonder what
ssh-add,
> etc... where there for.
> http://www2.wiwi.uni-marburg.de/~leich/soft/secpanel/

   Well, so far I see one blantant OOPS on the side of the developer. It's
cool he wrote an ssh-agent into it, it allows you to even assign which keypair
is to be primary, but NEVER asks for the passphrase. This is why you have to
keep entering it! It's even way cooler that the agent can start itself
automatically...

   Now, get secpanel to ask you to enter the passphrases as the program is
starting
up and your in business!

   I had to install tcl/tk on my production machine but as I suspected, when
you load ssh-agent / ssh-add BEFORE your favorite gui program (Gnome in my
case) secpanel is able to transfer multiple files without stopping and asking
for the password before EACH file. (anotherwards, ssh-agent is performing as
advertised!:-)

   So, there you go!

   Richard