bugzilla-daemon at mindrot.org
2003-Mar-31 06:56 UTC
[Bug 496] add a timeout function to ssh-agent
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496 ------- Additional Comments From hauser at acm.org 2003-03-31 16:56 ------- Created an attachment (id=266) --> (http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=266&action=view) Readme.txt for the japanese win-ssh-agent.exe/win-ssh-askpass.exe proofread by Nayuta ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
bugzilla-daemon at mindrot.org
2003-Apr-02 07:24 UTC
[Bug 496] add a timeout function to ssh-agent
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496
hauser at acm.org changed:
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------- Additional Comments From hauser at acm.org 2003-04-02 17:24 -------
Thanks to Corinna, I now can test it on the new cygwin version.
Results:
a) [ -S $SSH_AUTH_SOCK ] || eval `ssh-agent -t 900 -sa $SSH_AUTH_SOCK`
doesn't ask for the lock password (as hinted in
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496#c3) what did I do wrong?
b) If I manually add "ssh-add -x" I get asked for the lock password
twice. This
is unnecessary overhead - my screenlock also doesn't need to be configured
manually each time I login. It should be possible to take a default password
(e.g. the same one as the default identity .ssh/id_rsa has.)
c) after the time-out, instead of trying to unlock by issuing "ssh-add
-X"
itself, the next ssh command will just no longer use my authorized_keys, but
degrade the security level and ask for my server-side password
d) the lock appears to take place after "elapsed seconds". It would be
great if
it also could be configured to only consider "idle seconds".
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