[lug] ssh-agent under KDE and KNOPPIX

[Neal McBurnett]

Thanks - I had heard of keychain and meant to look it up.  keychain
looks like a nicely integrated package for doing what I've done for a
long time (reusing a single ssh-agent process and typing a password
only once per system boot).  Looking in the ps table is a useful
kludge for finding out a process id.  I actually wish they'd fix ssh
so it just needed $SSH_AUTH_SOCK, not $SSH_AGENT_PID also (should be
able to get the PID from a socket, or refer to a file for the PID
rather than requiring an unpredictable number like a pid).

But all I am lacking in this case is just knowing where to hook into
kde.  The hook just needs to start ssh-agent and keep the two standard
environment variables in the subsequent environment that desktop
applications inherit.  Hooking into a shell via .bashrc works when ssh
is launched from an interactive shell, but sometimes I want to launch
it from a menu item, etc.  And I don't want to set up the options so
that even non-interactive bash shells read .bashrc.

-Neal

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:34:27PM -0600, Timothy Klein wrote:
> On Monday 21 June 2004 02:13 pm, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > Anyone know how to get KDE to use ssh-agent right (i.e. as parent to
> > all applications)?  googles I've found refer to stuff that doesn't
> > work, at least under knoppix 3.4.
> >
> > See http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/ssh-agent%20and%20KNOPPIX
> > for a wiki page with "the story so far"...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> 
> Is there some reason why you can't just  use keychain?
> 
> I just call keychain from my bash login scripts and from .xsession/.xinit 
> scripts.
> 
> Is that an unworkable solution with KNOPPIX, as you can't edit .xsession?
> 
> If no, do that.  It's really easy.
> 
> A Keychain HowTO:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml
> 
> Keychain download:
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~agriffis/keychain/
> 
> Tim
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