On Mar 30, 2008, at 9:35 , Jamie Webb wrote:
On 2008-03-29 12:55:15 David Roundy wrote:
I'm sending this rather than pushing, since we're close to a release. It's a new module to automatically start an ssh-agent, if one isn't running. I expect to find it useful. The reason for this is that the ordinary mechanism for starting a single ssh-agent for an X session doesn't seem to be working for me. And starting xmonad with `ssh-agent xmonad` does no good, because the ssh-agent exits as soon as I restart xmonad.
My .xsession has
eval `ssh-agent`
before it starts xmonad, and it seems to work fine. Does this not work for you?
One caveat: .xsession is almost always a {,ba}sh script but the user's $SHELL might be {,t}csh, leading ssh-agent to do the wrong thing. Safest is "eval `ssh-agent -s`" to force it to use the sh/ bash commands. We tossed this around a bit on #xmonad last night and the above was the preferred solution. A variant that may solve other odd problems regarding placement and relay of ssh agent information to all subprocesses is: mv .xsession .xsession-real echo '#! /bin/sh' >.xsession echo 'exec ssh-agent $HOME/.xsession-real' >>.xsession chmod +x .xsession -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH