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Entering the passphrase every time you want to do a remote copy or
make a remote connection can be tiring. There is a simple mechanism
provided to avoid this. All you need do is to start up a shell or
other similar command that already knows what your passphrase is (by
you telling it just once). This is done with ssh-agent to
start the shell and ssh-add to store the passphrase for
this shell:
$ ssh-agent bash
$ ssh-add (or ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa)
Need passphrase for .ssh/id_dsa
Enter passphrase for .ssh/id_dsa
Identity added: .ssh/id_dsa (.ssh/id_dsa)
$ ssh alpine
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The ssh-add will prompt you for your passphrase but from
then on all further interaction with the remote host will not require
the passphrase again.
The -l option of ssh-add lists the key(s)
currently kept in memory for this ssh-agent. The
-d option removes an identity from memory.
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