Am 15.01.2010 um 22:36:53 schrieb Rob Owens: > 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?
you should do it this way, i think. http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh bye, Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
