From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 15:10:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C601E37B9E6 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-209-4.netcologne.de [194.8.209.4]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA22857; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:10:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e69MA4X04076; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:10:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:10:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Mark Ovens Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the use of ssh-agent(1) In-Reply-To: <20000709223946.F233@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > Anywhoo, for my extra $0.02. I typically use ssh-agent to "parent" an > > entire X session. I have the following alias, > > > > alias ssh-startx ssh-agent startx > > > > Ah, that seems like a cleaner solution (I don't envisage needing ssh > in the console). Oh, I thought you mentioned ttyv*. In anycase, if you wish to use ssh in multiple terminals /usr/ports/misc/screen will do the job nicely. Then you have $SSH_* in both worlds, X and ttyv. That's what I use: ttv0 login, ssh-agent screen, startup some screens, startx, etc... -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message