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From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>
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Subject: ssh-agent from .xinitrc
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Date: 02 Oct 2001 21:17:00 +0100
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Hi all,

I want to run ssh-agent and ssh-add to authenticate at the beginning
of my X session. When I was using gnome (that's a whole other post :))
I had
exec ssh-agent gnome-session

in .xinitrc. I then used gnome's session startup to run ssh-add with
priority 50. This all worked great.

Since my reload I can no longer use gnome, so I am using wmaker. 
doing 
exec ssh-agent ssh-add wmaker 
doesn't work because ssh-add assumes that wmaker is the identity file
to use. I have also tried
exec ssh-agent ssh-add /home/waynep/.ssh/identity wmaker 
and
exec ssh-agent ssh-add /home/waynep/.ssh/identity </dev/null wmaker 
but all of these fail.

What is the best way to achieve what I am trying to do here?

Thanks,

-- 
Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats

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