Hi' forum,
this is my almost first post from Toulouse, France, hence I already read a lot or your posts since my registration in 2010.
I wrote seven other posts previously, before I discovered a french speaking forum for the ubuntu distro that I use.
But I now use Red Hat machines at my work, in place of HP unix ones that were really too old.
The question is that I use a SSH free shell from time to time to escape a fascist firewall that would even not allow me to visit this forum. I would like to know if I can setup a ssh-agent between my machine and the free shell, in order to log on it without any password when I want to surf the web a little. I already use such an agent between different machines here, and should be able to set it up with ssh-keygen, and copyID and so on. The question is then just to know if the free shell would allow me to do so.
Thank you,
David

Maybe, maybe not.


You don't give us ANY usable information other than "it's a free shell" so we don't know the distribution, who the provider is or anything.


Set it up and see if it works and if that fails contact your free shell provider.

Okay excuse me, I thought that there could have been a general behaviour about SSH free shells and ssh-agent; the one that I use presently is TORvpn.
David

EDIT: Well it does not seem to work, but it is probably more because of a mistake of mine, that because of any allowance.
First of all, my ssh does not work as "ssh user@host" but needs "ssh -l user host", so I had to copy the ssh-copy-id script to my $HOME, and edit it according to that need. But it must not be enough I dunno...

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Of course I got it now; probably that the free shell server does not enable login with the key alone, and no password. So the only thing that I would have gained with all my stuff today, is that from home I would no longer be able to ssh this server with user and password, because the key will not be the same as that of here at the office. TRUE ? (If yes, I'm stupid)