Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:14:33 +0100 From: kilim <kilim@phenix.rootshell.be> To: Clayton Scott Kern <ckern1@twcny.rr.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH-agent setting Message-ID: <20050215171433.GA2345@phenix.rootshell.be> In-Reply-To: <20050215165141.GA87901@reddwarf.twcny.rr.com> References: <20050215142205.GA28272@phenix.rootshell.be> <55651.213.236.228.129.1108481931.squirrel@mail.adventuras.no> <57240.213.236.228.129.1108483003.squirrel@mail.adventuras.no> <20050215163842.GA10689@phenix.rootshell.be> <20050215165141.GA87901@reddwarf.twcny.rr.com>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:51:41AM -0500, Clayton Scott Kern wrote: > on 02-15-2005, kilim wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:56:43PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote: > > > >> > > > >> I set ssh-agent just fine for a session from a xterm under X. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> But what I'd like to have is once I log in to have session start from > > > >> my .profile so that when I do "startx" every subsequent xterm > > > >> 'inherits' the ssh-agent so that I don't have to type in the password. > > > >> > > > >> Is such a thing do-able ? > > > > > > > > in ~/.xinit start your windowmanager with something like: > > > correction: i have this in the file ~/.xsession , sorry. > > > > "/usr/bin/ssh-agent ~/bin/startmywindowmanager" > > > > I'm doing something like this, in my .xinitrc, as I start the X > > from the command line using 'startx': > > > > /usr/bin/ssh-agent "/usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker" > > > > Then in the xterm I just type ssh-add and every consecutive xterm > > can use ssh without prompting for the password. > > Why not use keychain and put it in the appropriate rc file (.bashrc, > cshrc, etc.), then you'll be connected to the agent automatically. You top posted. Anyways. Because if I have ssh-agent in .profile everytime I start an xterm I'll have another ssh-agent starting. Then for each and every one of them I'll have to run "ssh-add" and type in the pass pharase. Which completely defeats the whole point. But thanks for trying anyways.
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