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Subject: Re: ssh-agent, keychain, and Vista [Was: Re: Vista + cygwin basics]
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Charles Wilson wrote:

> It seems to do what I want, but as you say, keychain does slow down the 
> login process quite a bit. Other drawbacks to my approach:
>   (1) the console user's ssh-agent does not survive logoff (but remote 
> logons' ssh-agents do, since they all live in session 0).
>   (2) non-standard, win32-specific patch to /usr/bin/keychain

And, of course, the advantage over Karl's approach is:

   (1) you don't need to grant "Log on as a service" privilege to 
regular users
   (2) you don't need administrator privileges to set it up (e.g. to 
grant the privilege above to untrusted users, and to install ssh-agent 
as a service).

--
Chuck


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