Re: [Sshkeychain-developers] Overhaul

[Tim C. <ti...@ch...>]

On 2 Nov 2009, at 12:32 am, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Given the two divergent needs, would it make sense to separate the  
> functionality
> into two separate, but complimentary, applications? The idea would  
> be to allow
> both applications to develop the strengths, without getting held  
> back the other.
>
> One application suite that might be worth looking at for ideas is  
> "Putty", on
> the MS-Windows side, with its pageant.exe and puttygen.exe tools.

pageant doesn't really do anything that ssh-agent doesn't do already.   
(Don't get me wrong, PuTTY is a fine suite of apps for Windows - and I  
know Simon Tatham, who wrote it, personally)

Personally my model for SSHKeychain use is that I use it:

1)  To store passphrases in the Keychain, and manage ssh-agent for me.
2)  To start my SSH tunnels (I have three up continuously), although I  
don't use the GUI to configure forwarded ports and so on, I just  
configure that stuff in my .ssh/config

Now, I realise that (1) can to some extent be done by Mac OS X itself  
(although I've never actually bothered to use the Mac Way of doing  
it), but (2) is very useful to me.

I don't need to forward any privileged ports, so I don't need a proper  
installer for SSHKeychain...

Tim


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