Re: [Gnumed-devel] Mac OS 10.3 Panther

[James Busser]

SSH, which I am just getting familiar with, appears necessary if I wish  
to do any work at / on the Savannah site.

Could anyone advise whether, in seeking to make life easier, any of the  
utilities below is appropriate or recommended?

www.sshkeychain.org describes SSHKeychain as having the following  
features:
> 	• 	 Can remove all keys from the agent after sleep or after a minimum  
> period of sleep (especially useful for notebooks).
>         •        Can remove all keys from the agent when a Screensaver is 
> detected.
> 	• 	 Can remove all keys from the agent when the Apple keychain is  
> locked.
>         •        Can add keys to the agent whenever the Apple keychain is 
> unlocked.
> 	• 	 Can add keys to the agent whenever ssh is trying to use the agent  
> with no keys on the chain.
>         •        Can display itself in the StatusBar, Dock, or both.
> 	• 	 You can store the passphrases for your private keys in the Apple  
> Keychain.
> 	• 	 Can add the necessary variables to the global environment  
> (~/.MacOSX/environment.plist),
> 		 so you can use SSHKeychain with all your programs (Terminal,  
> Project Builder, etc).
> 		 You can also edit the global environment from within the  
> Preferences.
>         •        You can lock/unlock the Apple keychain from a menu item.
> 	• 	 Works seamless with the commandline tools. (i.e. tracks activity  
> coming from the commandline tools, and updates it's UI.)
> 	• 	 Works with requests coming over the network (through  
> AgentForwarding).
>         •        Can generate new keypairs.

alternately available are TelnetLauncher and RCEnvironment utilities:
> Telnet Launcher utility works with Terminal.app and allows you to  
> create lists, or groups of lists, of telnet and ssh connections and  
> even includes an auto-login feature that saves your password for you  
> though in Panther the auto-login function is still broken. This is a  
> minor bummer, but what I really wanted was RSA authentication anyway.  
> While I could use RSA auth just fine from Terminal.app, I found that  
> Telnet Launcher bypassed the necessary environment variables that are  
> set up by ssh-agent. My problem was how to get shell environment  
> variables to be used by applications launched in the MacOS GUI. Then I  
> found it - you can set environment variables in the file  
> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, and after you re-login to Mac OS X, all  
> applications you launch will have these variables set. Excellent!  
> There is even a utility out there called RCEnvironment that makes  
> editing this file a snap.--- original article at
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
> story=20031211122913895&query=openssh

another, "ssh agent", appears not to have been updated past Mac OS 10.2  
Jaguar:
> http://www.phil.uu.nl/~xges/ssh/