On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Cowles, Steve wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Keith Morse > > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:36 AM > > Subject: Re: ssh-agent with default runlevel of 5 > > > > > > On 15 Feb 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 01:32, Keith Morse wrote: > > > > > > > And to the original poster, I like to append to what > > > > Gordon has said above. RedHat has documented this at > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-open > ssh-client-config.html#S3-OPENSSH-SSH-AGENT-WITH-GNOME > > > > > > Cool... but odd. Step 2 should be entirely unnecessary. > > > > > > AFAICT, these directions have remained virtually unchanged > > since I first saw them in the 7.X distributions. My question > > to your comment would be, how does ssh-agent get started > > without step 2? > > Dependent upon what display manager you have configured at runlevel 5 -- > gnome or kde is started by way of ssh-agent on RH-8.0 (checkout either > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession). > > I like the fact that RH-8.0 starts gnome by way of ssh-agent, but my saved > gnome session starts 3 gnome-terminals with 4 tabs each. All tabs are > connecting to remote systems using ssh. So the above link instructions were > basically useless and seemed redundant (why would I want to start ssh-agent > again?) So I tried substituting step 2 with ssh-add, but then I was prompted > for 12 ssh-add passphrases when my gnome-terminal/tabs started. Bzzzttt!!! > So to fix this problem, I added ssh-add to > /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.gnome so that I was prompted for the > ssh-add passphrase right after the gnome login screen (prior to gnome > starting). By doing so, my ssh-add passphrase was inherited by all > gnome-terminals/tabs executing ssh. Thanks. I just tried this after changing .Xclients back to it's default and no surprise it worked. I didn't update /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.gnome as you did and still got the ssh-askpass prompt just after login. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
