[Techtalk] thoughts on OpenSSH key passphrase/ no passphrase

[Carla Schroder]

Thanks everyone! That's some mighty good stuff.

I prefer keychain to ssh-agent, if anyone cares. :) The advantage is it 
authenticates per system, rather than login session, so you can open new 
terminals and not have to re-enter passphrases.

But, like ssh-agent, it does not survive reboots.

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