Jeff D on 15/01/10 17:00, wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:
I've been chasing my tail trying to work this one out following different
examples off the web, but can't sort it out and keep getting the old
"Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."
from ssh-add, and nothing but inaction from keychain.
I know everything has to run as a child of ssh-agent to gain access to its
envvars, but I don't how to achieve this.
keychain id_rsa in my .bash_profile doesn't work, I still have to give ssh my
password for the private key when I use ssh.
I guess I should be setting up the envvars in my bash env somehow when getting
them via 'ssh-agent -s' but I don't know the syntax to do this.
I always boot into a command line and then run startx when I need it, and I
think herein lies the problem - although I can't get it to work on the command
line either with keychain or ssh-add.
Thanks
Adam
Hi Adam,
from the command line you can run :
ssh-agent bash
#that starts your agent for that shell, you will need to run that for each
shell you want to have access to your keys
ssh-add -i /path/to/your/key
For X, in /etc/X11/Xsession.options, check and make sure you have use-ssh-agent in there.
[SNIP]
What I'm trying to do is to get this set up in my .bash_profile so that I only
need to type in my key password once when I log into the machine.
I can't put the two command in my .bash_profile because the 2nd command won't
get executed until the first bash shell exits.
I do have the line in my Xsession.options
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