[portland] keychain and ssh-agent: Use ssh keys more easily

[Michael Schurter]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Brandon Philips <brandon at ifup.org> wrote:
> On 20:12 Tue 09 Feb 2010, Igal Koshevoy wrote:
>> MacOS and some UNIX distros may provide a specialized way to do
>> this.
>
> All of the Linux distros using GNOME provide "seahorse" which creates
> an agent upon logging which is bound to that session:
>
>  http://projects.gnome.org/seahorse/
>
> Seahorse can also manage and save your GPG keys too.

+1 for Seahorse (under Applications > Accessories > Passwords and
Encryption Keys in Ubuntu).

It can also replace ssh-copy-id for people who prefer GUIs and gives
you access to your Gnome Keyring.