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  • For those who don't want to go the >console route all the time there's SSH Agent, which is a small free GUI app that does similar things. It replaced SSHAgentServices for me and is travelling fine. Source is available.

    http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=16051&db=mac

    This is from the readme file:
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    The Global Agent

    The key to making the agent accessible is the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable. The tools in the SSH suite communicate with the agent over a

    • I'm glad to see this, as I've really missed SSHAgentServices. But neither of these solutions is as optimal as SSHAgentServices was, IMO. The ">console" login stuff is a PITA, and I hate the idea that I have to have the SSH Agent application running whenever I want to use SSH (which is to say, all day long!).

      I wrote to Kevin Van Vechten, the creator of SSHAgentServices, to see if he'd be willing to update it for Jaguar, but I've not heard back from him. I tried to write him once before, several months ago, and din't hear back then, either. But I expect that something really simply needs to be changed to get it to work -- I just don't know what it is!

      Anyway, thanks for the link. I'll be talking about this in my OSXConn Presentation [oreillynet.com].

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