Keychain

Latest revision as of 20:54, 25 September 2008

[edit] Presentation

ssh-agent permit SSH passwordless login, and works by caching the key(that is encrypted on the filesystem)...so it's more secure than passwordless ssh key files. ssh-agent can also permit deamons and cron jobs to access the machines...without requiring a password Keychain permit us to use ssh-agent easily...and permit us to access the ssh-agent deamon from any terminal...

you can find documetation on the usage of keychain here

[edit] Installation

All the commands has to be typed on the openmoko(you can also use ssh) we will download keychain:

wget http://agriffis.n01se.net/keychain/keychain-2.6.8.tar.bz2
cd keychain-2.6.8

as install -m0755 keychain /usr/bin/keychain doesn't work because we don't have the install command we will type:

cp keychain /usr/bin/
chmod 0775 /usr/bin/keychain

Then we will need to activate it:

cd /etc/skel
cp * /home/root/

edit the /home/root/.bashrc file:

opkg update
opkg install nano
nano /home/root/.bashrc

navigate inside the file with the arrows and add this to the end:

eval `/usr/bin/keychain --ignore-missing --eval  ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_dsa`

then quit with ctrl+x,press y to save change,and press enter Then we will need vte:

opkg update
opkg install vte

[edit] Usage

start vte and keychain will appear.

[edit] Bugs

• It doesn't work with openmoko-terminal2
• you need to use bash to make it work...so change /bin/sh to /bin/bash in /etc/passwd for the line where there is root written...but that will prevent scp and sftp from working