Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:51:41 -0500 From: Clayton Scott Kern <ckern1@twcny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH-agent setting Message-ID: <20050215165141.GA87901@reddwarf.twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20050215163842.GA10689@phenix.rootshell.be> 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>
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Why not use keychain and put it in the appropriate rc file (.bashrc, cshrc, etc.), then you'll be connected to the agent automatically. on 02-15-2005, kilim wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:56:43PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> 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" > > Thanks Lars ! > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Clayton Scott Kern ckern1@twcny.rr.com The software states that it UNIX System Administrator requires Microsoft Windows 95, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Linux, Solaris, HP-UX higher, so I installed FreeBSD.
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