May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
21h 5m
English
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SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
by Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes
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Accession Lite
Accession Lite is started automatically when each user logs in; it acts as an authentication agent.[171] The GUI application provides the same functionality as the ssh-agent and ssh-add programs that are used on Unix systems.[172]
The easiest way to access the Accession Lite GUI, shown in Figure 16-5, is to double-click the icon in the tool tray on the taskbar. The Tectia Client and Connector applications also have icons and menus for Accession Lite. Normally, Accession Lite stops automatically when the user logs out (or the system is shut down), but if it needs to be stopped manually for some reason, use the File /Quit menu item.
Figure 16-5. Accession Lite
The main Accession Lite window displays information about the loaded keys and a log of its operations in separate panes.
The toolbar icons or equivalent items in the Tools menu can be used to perform actions:
Add a key to the agent: a series of dialogs prompt for the filename and a passphrase.
Delete a selected key from the agent.
Lock or unlock a selected key: dialogs prompt for a passphrase.
Edit attributes for a selected key: this presents the Key Attributes page (Figure 16-6) of the Settings dialog, which can also be obtained via the Settings toolbar icon or the Edit/Settings menu item.
The default attributes apply to all of the keys, unless overridden for specific keys. Keys can be set to expire after a specified ...
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