How to get Keychain to work with sshLogin

AtelierN

04-17-2003, 10:54 AM

I installed sshLogin 1.2.1 from Synthemese. After using SSH Helper to configure the ssh environment as suggested in the sshLogin readme file.
I checked "Use Keychain" in the sshLogin preferences pane, which is really why I wanted to use sshLogin in the first place. I must connect to many hosts in the course of a day and it would save me much time if I only had to enter my keychain password once to get access to all of them.

But now, every time I connect to a remote host, I get prompted not only for my password on that host, but also for my new dsa key passphrase. The sshLogin readme file doesn't give much
detail. Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong or where I can find more detailed instructions for using sshLogin?

Thanks!

bluehz

04-17-2003, 04:21 PM

These are the instructions I used adn they work fine for me...

http://www.synthemesc.com/sshLogin/sshLogin.html

Of particular note - I had to manually edit /etc/ttys as described:then the /etc/ttys file will have to be modified manually by opening a shell. If this is the case find the active console line (the line in /etc/ttys that starts with console) and insert the following text

-LoginHook /Applications/Utilities/sshAskPass.app/Contents/MacOS/sshAskPass_LoginHook

as an option to the loginwindow application.

Original

console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow" vt100 on secure window=/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"

Modified

console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow -LoginHook /Applications/Utilities/sshAskPass.app/Contents/MacOS/sshAskPass_LoginHook" vt100 on secure window=/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"

Be very careful when editing though - double check it and check it again. I believe if you bork this file you can only boot into single-user mode.

AtelierN

04-17-2003, 07:20 PM

Thanks for the quick response bluehz!

These are the instructions I used adn they work fine for me...

http://www.synthemesc.com/sshLogin/sshLogin.html

Of particular note - I had to manually edit /etc/ttys

I checked /etc/ttys after installation, and verified character for character that what had been inserted automatically matched these instructions.

Any other ideas what might be wrong?

bluehz

04-17-2003, 07:46 PM

Hmmm... not really ... after I followed the instructions on that oage above it just started working.

Can you verify that sshAskPass is in your System Prefs > Login Items?

When your system boots you should see some sshLogin windows show up and disappear if all is working well. I think you can manually launch sshAskPass and see if that helps. That would at least help narrow down your problem.