From 90425b979d636fcbbad1ed59ec81ab6c065f0163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 19:55:49 -0400 Subject: move ssh tricks --- software/ssh.page | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'software/ssh.page') 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). -- cgit v1.2.3