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Note that you should never use the line <code>Host *</code> for agent forwarding in your SSH configuration file. | Note that you should never use the line <code>Host *</code> for agent forwarding in your SSH configuration file. | ||
==Installing locally== | |||
Note that many contemporary Linux distributions as well as macOS now offer graphical "keychain managers" that can easily be configured to also manage your SSH key pair, so that logging in on your local computer is enough to store the private key in memory and have the operating system automatically provide it to the SSH client during login on a remote cluster. You will | Note that many contemporary Linux distributions as well as macOS now offer graphical "keychain managers" that can easily be configured to also manage your SSH key pair, so that logging in on your local computer is enough to store the private key in memory and have the operating system automatically provide it to the SSH client during login on a remote cluster. You will | ||
then be able to log in to our clusters without ever typing in any kind of passphrase. | then be able to log in to our clusters without ever typing in any kind of passphrase. | ||
[[Category:Connecting]] | [[Category:Connecting]] | ||