Excerpts from Stef Bon's message of Wed Dec 23 23:31:15 +0100 2009:
> Marc Weber wrote:
> > Excerpts from Stef Bon's message of Wed Dec 23 22:59:48 +0100 2009:
> >
> >> Stef Bon wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is the whole problem, because this is not easy. The automounter
> >>> (read man 5 autofs) can offer variables like USER, UID, etc,HOST
> >>> of the user requesting the mount (according to the manpage). Then to
> >>> present this user a suitable dialog... maybe via dbus???
> >>>
> >> I'm silly here, the user is not the problem, this is already available,
> >> in the options, or - in my construction - in the config file, in the
> >> parameter AUTOFS_USER
> >> and in the mountpath, but the environment this user is using! A pid of
> >> the process would be very usefull, for example.
> >> But this is not easy. When I'm logged in twice with the same account,
> >> which session should get the question for the passphrase?
> >>
> >
> > About which session are you talking now? A ssh-agent session determined
> > by SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCKET ?
> >
> > Add this to your .bashrc or .zshrc:
> >
> > reuseSSHAgent () {
> > local f=~/.current-ssh-agent
> > . $f || true
> > ps -p "$SSH_AGENT_PID" &> /dev/null || {
> > ssh-agent | grep -v echo > $f
> > . $f
> > ssh-add
> > }
> > }
> > reuseSSHAgent
> >
> > If there is a ssh agent running it will be used if not it will be
> > started. Then ssh-add will be run (I use only one key so this is
> > comfortable to me ..)
> >
> > Maybe I should check that the socket file exists then I would'nt have to
> > run ps.
> >
> > Gentoo has a nice script called "keychain" which provides this and more
> > for ssh-agent and the gnu-gpg agent. However I felt it was too bloated
> > and replaced it by this function.
> >
> > You really don't want to type your password twice, do you ? :)
> >
> No, but sometimes inevitable.
>
> I'm talking about the usersession. When logged in twice, and I'm
> activating the mount at the second session (or login)
> how does the automounter and the mount script know which usersession to
> present a dialog.
>
> This is no issue when you first enter the passphrase manually in the
> first session, make use of it and reuse it on the second.
>
> Stef
How does wall work ?
Maybe it should be asked on all terminals.
This would work.
But that's the reason why I didn't even try to find a solution.
If automount knew about the process id there might be a chance figuring
out about the tty being used..
But it's not a problem for me so I won't fix it unless you have an idea
which can be implemented fast.
Marc Weber
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