===== Keychain =====

Keychain is an excellent way of making SSH passwordless connections between systems that you regularly connect to.

==== Installation ====

Installation is simple under Gentoo, you will already have the ''sshd'' installed as part of [[http://www.openssh.org|net-misc/openssh]], its then just a case of installing keychain itself...

<code>
emerge -av keychain
</code>


==== Graphical Login ====

To ensure that your password is requested you can use [[http://www.liquidmeme.net/software/x11-ssh-askpass/|SSH askpass]] or the [[https://www.cgabriel.org/software/wiki/SshAskpassFullscreen|AskPass Fullscreen]] to ensure you are 

==== Configuration ====

Rather than duplicating what has already been written please follow the instructions at the [[http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/keychain-guide.xml|Gentoo Linux Keychain Guide]].

==== Links ====

  * [[http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/keychain-guide.xml|Gentoo Linux Keychain Guide]]
  * [[http://www.funtoo.org/en/security/keychain/intro/|Daniel Robins Keychain Overview (original author of Keychain)]]
  * [[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html|OpenSSH Key Management, Part 1]]
  * [[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/|OpenSSH Key Management, Part 2]]
  * [[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc3/|OpenSSH Key Management, Part 3]]

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