Why do I have to keep unlocking my SSH key?

Posted by Benjamin Oakes on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Benjamin Oakes
Published on 2010-04-21T15:02:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 15:03 UTC
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I ran some X applications using ssh -Y my_address and now it asks me to unlock my RSA key every time I use it. I used to only have to unlock it once a day. What's going on?

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04.

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