From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu May 24 14:42:02 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EEBEF3743; Thu, 24 May 2018 14:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82FF96F4B3; Thu, 24 May 2018 14:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C56B21C79; Thu, 24 May 2018 10:42:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 24 May 2018 10:42:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zyxst.net; h=cc :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm2; bh=vCeuACNufpYUJypqLxj46dQ2s9Iax0b7tZ9kI6QLuQ4=; b=GinFmoLy 05OwKtnih8xLNTHRy6CvAkxyl9zrMTv1i2tQIrkTLok8KkW2PRkashvbbjQBx99u vcI5lEhu3sxx4iinIbpF6+9b8VGcSyh6uzFOa2WWbpdkrUss29dd8SY2QXT7C+49 KZ2XS+XlVeuossJtAJq/JK054ky7DYkLdk5J+V7N1GqZl5Fr5s8sJHBcVu33Us3L z17YTcPu1wtNvICdICpHIbRwuuoTJy+aExtopj6KPuwFEqcPfciXugYgOailHT9F y+oL0L3I9V1ZuROlIN7rwZAXNQN0cUq7sLG06x5mcO34HfkzgbTWClSkXtWsxHkN OC0DcSUSRVTN0A== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=vCeuACNufpYUJypqLxj46dQ2s9Iax 0b7tZ9kI6QLuQ4=; b=JV2l66c/iPW7xX7jZepV6VoZnqkMUrP4hH73ir01Ntjm6 ZvYB1Hsx78zGdkTZCUTzP+/q8O6pkIv47aIpYT2W15TNJv8iQSAq7yJcqtN7uwmw OxLGxCHVkQVXNQkUGoU1OQ9jMuP5ZJ6gvQTkkYsIIx8aAFayNn8dbcTtwd48klKk 8Z40vBtD2rgt/ByKzDzDYNflAD7N1AErZOCc0y+TNXqtaqNBilP4NVdbIo6XLuc8 De+MO+SGCLldxKGsQDTrgNUtMaK9WmWnbFBXAA5ztQSa0FgKD7qNT+0WSAWuBR2O e7cM6ZqKZ9dYa84Abw/fKHHH9jw5IXJglp7O2zK9w== X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Received: from desktop.local (parsley.growveg.org [82.70.91.97]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E5FDD103A8; Thu, 24 May 2018 10:41:59 -0400 (EDT) From: tech-lists Subject: problems with ssh-agent after running MATE desktop Organization: none To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <0a5a4cfc-7872-41ae-4f51-a65fc2cb9986@zyxst.net> Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 15:41:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 14:42:02 -0000 Hello lists, For over a decade I've used windowmaker for my freebsd desktop. For easy ssh/sftp access to sites, before starting windowmaker with xinit, I run 'agent' which is a tcsh alias for the following: rm -f "$HOME"/.ssh/`hostname`.agent ; ssh-agent | grep -v echo > "$HOME"/.ssh/`hostname`.agent ; source "$HOME"/.ssh/`hostname`.agent ; ssh-add it prompts me for my ssh keyphrase. Then I start xinit, and all windows subsequently opened in xorg/windowmaker have this key in their environment loaded. Connecting to another server is as easy as ssh name@server. However, this does not happen if MATE is loaded from xinit. It is as if I had not loaded the key at all before starting MATE. I get this error: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation If I then run 'agent', prompts me for the keyphrase, then it works normally. But I have to repeat this in every single opened terminal. What do I have to do to stop MATE from clobbering (or whatever it's doing - I don't know where to start with this) ssh-add? for context: recent freebsd-stable/amd64 and ports thanks, -- J.