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diff --git a/software/ssh.page b/software/ssh.page index 64fc0be..920bdab 100644 --- a/software/ssh.page +++ b/software/ssh.page @@ -21,3 +21,10 @@ Enable compression over remote connections with fast machines:: Compression yes + +SSH Key Agent Timeout +----------------------------- +``ssh-agent`` has an argument (``-t``) to timeout private keys. You'll need to +enable this flag in your X initialization file somewhere... on Ubuntu it seems +to be in ``/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent`` (set ``SSHAGENTARGS='-t +6h'`` for six hour timeout). |