On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Pedro Soria-Rodriguez wrote: sorrod> You can setup your ssh session so that it uses sorrod> certificates to authenticate you to the server, instead of sorrod> using username/password conbination. THen your sorrod> certificate is kept in your account in your client sorrod> machine. When you connect to the server, the ssh client sorrod> automatically grabs your cert., does a few operations with sorrod> the server to authenticate you, and you are all set. You sorrod> don't need to enter anything manually. You should give your certificate (RSA or DSA key) a passphrase to keep it more secure. You could then use ssh-agent to cache the key in memory for the duration of a session so you don't need to enter the passphrase every time. sorrod> from the security point of view, you need to keep your sorrod> certificate in the client machine safe, obviously.