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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:34:00 +0100
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using ssh-agent with kdm login manager ...
Message-ID:  <20021030153400.GA97822@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021030111422.S44235-100000@hub.org>
References:  <20021030111422.S44235-100000@hub.org>

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:16:15AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> I've searched the web (and am still searching), but for the life of me, I
> can't get ssh-agent 'active' when using kdm for the login manager ...
>=20
> I've tried setting up a simple .xsession file:
>=20
> > cat .xsession
> ssh-agent startkde
> eval `ssh-agent -k`
>=20
> but that doesn't appear to work ...
>=20
> help?

Here's what I do, using blackbox (using an idea of a friend of mine):

----------->8----------------->8---------

#!/bin/sh
eval `/usr/bin/ssh-agent -s`
( while true; do sleep 6048000; done ) & WAITPID=3D$!; export WAITPID
/usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox &
wait $WAITPID
eval `/usr/bin/ssh-agent -k`

----------->8----------------->8---------

This way I can even change window managers without stopping X. I have
'kill $WAITPID' as my 'exit session' command in the menu. You might
be able to do something similar with KDE.

Note that I use xdm, not kdm.

HTH,

--Stijn

--=20
If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was
yesterday?

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