SSHKeychain - 0.8.2

I've used SSH Agent (the Mac GUI app) for many years, and combined with shortcuts (now "functions" in ~/bash_profile, like function gent { ssh -2C root@192.168.0.101; } ) the process has made it very easy and fast to login very securely to my various servers. Agent, however, recently lost the ability to grab my passphrases from the keychain, so every few weeks when I reboot I've needed to type them in to startup the agent again, and finally got fed up.

This looks like it will do very nicely, as well as adding some extra security tweaks to my process. Only hitch was digging far enough into the developer site to find the bit about going to prefs, Environment tab, and enabling the checkbox, then logging out and back in to get it to work. Oh, also that when I turned off display in the dock, it removed any display at all, anywhere, and lost the ability to reset or interact with the application at all. Had to delete the prefs file and reboot to see or talk to SSH Keychain again. That done, though, it is working very nicely now!! Thanks and kudos!

Since updating to 0.8.2 I've noticed this console message (with typo):

2007-09-05 19:24:40.548 SSHKeychain[20474] Buggy password in keycahin workaround

No errors when running Keychain First Aid in Keychain Access.

In case anyone wonders, 0.8 uses a package installer to support this new feature:

• Added support for tunneling ports < 1024

The installer runs this post{install,upgrade} script to give the TunnelRunner helper app setuid root permission:

#!/bin/sh
chown root:admin /Applications/SSHKeychain.app/Contents/Resources/TunnelRunner
chmod u+s /Applications/SSHKeychain.app/Contents/Resources/TunnelRunner

Latest public revision of source code on the developer's site is 0.7b3.

Great program, very useful.

Using 0.7.1 with Tiger 10.4.0, everything has worked ok so far, but suddenly I'm having trouble editing the port forwarding settings, in both tableviews.
(Maybe I didn't notice it before now)

The program logs an exception after trying to edit an NSDictionary.

Removing the pref .plist and adding tunnels, it works ok but leaving the tunnels tab (or quitting), then returning to add or edit in the portmap tableviews, will produce the exception.

I can workaround by setting the portmaps last and not editing them, or by editing the .plist directly.

On my machine, anyway. Anyone else?

SSHKeychain, combined with SSH Tunnel Manager and Apple Keychain, have made non-interactive ssh key and tunnel management possible.

So far 0.5.1 seems to have resolved a memory leak; RSS usage actually *decreased* a bit since first launching this version ~4 hours ago.