[lug] SSH notes for meeting August 8, 2002

[Rob Judd]

My slides for the demo on using keys with SSH may be found at
http://www.math.du.edu/~rjudd/cryptography/notes/

One of the things I mentioned was how to get keys working with X.  The
point is to run eval `ssh-agent` in the parent process of the window
manager.  Traditionally this was done by putting eval `ssh-agent` in your
.xsession file, however that file is no longer used by desktops like KDE
and Gnome.  The two fixes I suggested were to edit the startkde script
(/usr/bin) or the Xsession script (in the xdm directory) to put in that
line.  Unfortunately that requires root access or a friendly sys-admin.
Kevin mentioned that RedHat have put that in already for 7.3.

So my question is: are there any user-definable scripts that KDE and Gnome
run where you could put this line as a regular user?  I would like to add
that information to my slides.

Thanks a lot, Rob