On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:11:14PM +0000, Adam Hardy wrote: > 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. > What about following the first command with: &
Does that work? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
