salt-ssh used with a password-protected key: you're asked for the passphrase 3X per host!

[mkoistinen]

I'm using salt-ssh 0.17.1

On starting a session, the operator is asked 3X in a row for his key's passphrase PER MINION.

In some environments, running salt without a passphrase on the key violates the organisation's policy and others, it is simply too dangerous, can we do something about this annoyance to make it more useable in these environments?

[basepi]

Yep, this is something we have yet to implement. There are three+ operations per call in salt-ssh (checking for salt, deploying it if it's not there, collecting data, etc). We'll definitely add this support as salt-ssh becomes more stable and awesome. =) It's still very much an alpha/beta product right now.

[mkoistinen]

Work-around for anyone struggling with this is to use ssh-agent before you start working with salt-ssh.

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