Guide for replacing system ssh with MacPorts ssh

[davidfavor (David Favor)]

There are a variety of guides about this scattered around the net.

All (I've found so far) have various problems.

Let me know if there is a "MacPorts Guide" or ticket which covers the suggested way to completely circumvent the popup window AskPass nonsense + running the undocumented /usr/bin/ssh-agent -l command.

Thanks.

[davidfavor (David Favor)]

/opt/local/bin/ssh seems to restart /usr/bin/ssh-agent every time I run ssh.

So maybe the real question here is this...

Let me know how to make MacPorts ssh stop running /usr/bin/ssh-agent -l every time ssh runs.

Thanks.

[davidfavor (David Favor)]

Looks like /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist must somehow be hacked for this.

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Replying to david@…:

Looks like /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist must somehow be hacked for this.

Perhaps unchecking "Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login" is all that is needed.

[davidfavor (David Favor)]

Curious idea.

This is already unchecked in my environment.

Thanks for the tip though. I'll have to figure out exactly what this option does.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

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[udbraumann]

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