Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2005 19:44 schrieb Niall O Broin:
> On 8 Jun 2005, at 19:24, Michael Armbrecht wrote:
> > Just add "ssh-add" to ~/.xinitrc or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Should
> > automatically call ssh-askpass (at least it does it on my SuSE9.3 box).
> > It's probably already in there, just commented.
>> Bingo Michael - that did the trick. Mind you, I'm still puzzled as to
> why doing the same thing either via .kde/env or .kde/Autostart didn't
> work - ssh-askpass was called, but the agent never got the key.
My guess is this: ssh-agent is usually called either with "/bin/bash" or some
other shell as argument, then being ``inside'' that shell, you add
keys/identities. In this case it's not a shell, but X. If you do it
in .kde/Autostart that's not the same -- X is already running, so if you add
a key, it can't reach/see the ssh agent. Probably badly explained...
Michael
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