2009/4/27 Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin@resel.fr>:
Le Lundi 27 à 5:12, Shridhar Daithankar a écrit :
Hmm.. I use kde and there is nothing for ssh-agent in /etc. I think it should go in shell startup so that even non-gui session have ssh-agent too.
I would agree with that. Having it enabled for everyone, I'm not sure. You should consider adding it to /etc/skel if you have several users and you want it to be pre-configured for every user you wall add.
AFAIU it has to go in both. I need the agent running in X, my shell startup isn't run when I log into X (at least not via GDM, I doubt it's ever run).
#Start ssh-agent. Don't want to use agent from last session if it persits at all.
Should I look into using seahorse instead of {ssh,gpg}-agent?
and I got to find a KDE equivalent too. :)
Choose a desktop agnostic one : keychain will automagically start {ssh,gpg}-agent or use one if it is available. I find it nice to log in into my desktop computer on the morning, unlock my SSH keys, and then when later I'm moving, I can log back to my desktop and from there use my SSH key to login to further machines. I guess it depends on your computing habits. And well, I you really want only one daemon, you can still tell keychain ot use gpg-agent's --enable-ssh-support (I never tried).
Just add to your .${SHELL}login :
keychain . ~/.keychain/chameau-sh . ~/.keychain/chameau-sh-gpg
Thanks for the pointer to keychain. It's really only a replacement for ssh-agent though, not for gpg-agent. I've done some digging and it seems the Gnome way of doing this is to have ssh-agent start dbus-launch, which in turn starts seahorse, which then starts gnome-session. Somewhat complicated, then I have to look into replacing ssh-agent by keychain :-) I'll report back as soon as I have my modfied GDM script and shell startup skeleton. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe