Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 17:19:42 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the use of ssh-agent(1) Message-ID: <3969169E.10DB028@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007100027400.2764-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>
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Paul Herman wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>
> > xterm xterm -n "$USER@$HOST" &
> >
> > And I do not want to use the alias.
> >
> > This is actually one of those things I have always meant to ask
> > about. Is there a better way to do that? Setting 'XTerm.title:
> > $USER@$HOST' in .Xresources would not have the desired effect for
> > several reasons.
>
> in .bashrc / .bash_login depending on your xterms, something like:
>
> xtitle () { echo -n -e "\033]0;$*\007"; }
> if [ "x$TERM" = xxterm ]
> then xtitle $USER@$HOST
> fi
I'm a little confused about exactly what the original poster is trying to
accomplish. If you are trying to use ssh-agent in X, your best bet is to
start your window manager as the child of ssh-agent. For example, the last
line of my .xinitrc file is:
exec ssh-agent gnome-session
(Yes, I've gone over to the dark side.) That way all windows that are
started by your window manager will inherit ssh-agent.
As for the bash prompt issue, take a look at
http://freebsd.simplenet.com/Bash-prompts.txt
Enjoy,
Doug
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