From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 15:17:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4645E37B9E6 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.91.190]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000709231655.FLSV3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:16:55 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA08463; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:17:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:17:38 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Paul Herman Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about the use of ssh-agent(1) Message-ID: <20000709231738.A8365@parish> References: <20000709223946.F233@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:10:04AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:10:04AM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: > 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*. I did, but since the solution (especially identifying the last program using the agent when using ssh-agent -k) is not particularly simple I figured that Crist's solution was the best road to take. thanks for your help guys. > 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 -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message