Use deploy with protected ssh-key

[ineiti]

When the ssh-key is protected by a password, deploy can't connect to the users.deterlab.net-server without having to ask for the password all the time.

Use ssh-agent or any other convenient tool to bypass the password-request.

[Daeinar]

On OSX it is sufficient to execute

ssh-add path/to/private/key

and then enter the password for the ssh key to resolve this issue.

[ineiti]

is this for the session, one hour or forever?

[Daeinar]

The passphrase is stored in the OSX keychain, i.e. it depends on how you handle keychain unlocking. See: https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases/

[Daeinar]

Btw. the default OSX ssh-add command seems not to have a -K flag as mentioned in the article.

[ineiti]

OK, can you add that to the deploy/README in an appropriate place?

[ineiti]

And make a pull-request?

[Daeinar]

There's no deploy/README file yet. Should I add one or should I include that ssh-comment in the main README https://github.com/DeDiS/cothority/blob/master/README.md ?

[ineiti]

As we have now two separate apps in the tree (app/conode and deploy), we could split the cothority/README to cothority/app/conode/README (already exists) and cothority/deploy/README and then just give a short overview in the cothority/README over the two apps.

[Daeinar]

Okay, I'll take care of that later today.

[ineiti]

Closed by #106