Request for review: keychain

[Chip Turner]

It would be nicer to have some sort of opt-in, perhaps in the form of
~/.keychainrc, which, if present, causes it to be source'd and then,
if set, use an environment variable KEYS to list the keys the user
wants, otherwise default to id_dsa.  This way a user just specifies
their keys that feed the command line (and perhaps other command line
options such as timeout).

Chip

On 7/11/05, Alexander Dalloz <alex at dalloz.de> wrote:
> Am Di, den 12.07.2005 schrieb Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams um 4:49:
> 
> > > I promote keychain as a very handy tool which offers the nice
> > > possibility to use passphrase protected keys through cronjobs, i.e. for
> > > scheduled, unattended backup jobs.
> > >
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/
> >
> > Would this warrant an entry in /etc/profile.d to load it on login?
> 
> You are right, keychain does not get active just by installation. "man 1
> keychain" contains examples on how to use it in profile or rc files with
> different shells. To give an example, this is what I use with bash:
> 
> $ cat ~/.bash_profile
> 
> # .bash_profile
> 
> # start keychain and point it to the private keys
> # that we'd like to cache
> KEY="`ls ${HOME}/.ssh/*dsa`"
> /usr/bin/keychain ${KEY}
> if [ -f ${HOME}/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh ]; then
>         . ${HOME}/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh > /dev/null
> else
>         echo "there is a problem with keychain"
> fi
> 
> Logging in as the user I am asked for the passphrase of each DSA key. I
> don't think such an activation should be done for all users by rpm
> package installation (if that is the question behind your comment).
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 1024D/866ED681 2005-07-11 Alexander Dalloz (Fedora Project) <alex at dalloz.de>
> Key fingerprint = CD40 0A91 7814 C1E4 5940  8E0E 1FD5 C316 866E D681
> 
> 
> 
> BodyID:61891864.2.n.logpart (stored separately)
> 
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