[Buildroot] Eric's offline again.

Ulf Samuelsson ulf at atmel.com
Fri Jul 6 15:40:04 UTC 2007


>> Eric set up an account for me at svn.uclibc.org a few months ago, but
>> all my login attempts fail.
>> 
>> I followed the instructions at
>> http://buildroot.uclibc.org/developer.html to generate a public
>> (id_dsa.pub) and a private key (id_dsa), both stored in
>> <homedir>/.ssh. I generated a key without a passphrase, but now when
>> I understand more I would like to have a new key with a passphrase.
> 
> Are you running "ssh-add"? And is your ssh-agent running in the
> background?
> _______________________________________________


Thanks, ssh-agent was running, so the thing missing was ssh-add.
Maybe it is worthwhile to update the http://buildroot.uclibc.org/developer.html
to say that 
* you should add a passphrase when generating the key.
* ssh-agent should run
* ssh-add <homedir>/.ssh/id_dsa

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson





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