SSH-agent setting

[Lars Kristiansen]

> Hello,
>
> I set ssh-agent just fine for a session from a xterm under X.
>
>
> But what I'd like to have is once I log in to have session start from
> my .profile so that when I do "startx" every subsequent xterm
> 'inherits' the ssh-agent so that I don't have to type in the password.
>
> Is such a thing do-able ?

in ~/.xinit start your windowmanager with something like:
"/usr/bin/ssh-agent   ~/bin/startmywindowmanager"

if you are using xdm, some applications in ports can help you with
providing a password-dialog, among others "ssh_askpass_gtk2".

--
Hilsen Lars


>
> Thank you
>
>
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