Lapo Luchini wrote on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:42 AM: > Under FreeBSD, I launch ssh-agent in my .xsession script and its > environment is automatically inherited by every shell I then > open in my > X11 session. > No such luck with Windows, but I found a way to propagate a > environment variable to any (future) user process after the user is > already logged. > (or, at the very least...) Works for me. > > Variables will be then available on any shell and program opened after > the attached script is executed. > (put it in "Startup" menu in order to execute it at logon time)
I use a similar approach for years utilizing keychain. In my ~/.profile I have following lines: ====== %< ======= if test -z "`pidof ssh-agent`"; then keychain ~/.ssh/id_dsa . ~/.keychain/`hostname`-sh # Create batch files to be called from running shells cat ~/.keychain/`hostname`-sh | sed -e "s/;.*$//g" | u2d > ~/.keychain/`hostname`-command.bat # Set environment directly regtool -s set /machine/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session\ Manager/Environment/SSH_AUTH_SOCK $SSH_AUTH_SOCK regtool -s set /machine/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session\ Manager/Environment/SSH_AGENT_PID $SSH_AGENT_PID # Broadcast of WM_SETTINGCHANGE update-env else . ~/.keychain/`hostname`-sh fi ====== %< ======= And update-env.c is: ====== %< ======= #include <windows.h> int main() { SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0, (LPARAM)"Environment"); } ====== %< ======= build with Makefile: ====== %< ======= all: update-env.exe %.exe: %.c gcc -mno-cygwin $^ -o $* strip $@ ====== %< ======= I never found a way to broadcast the WM_SETTINGCHANGE directly form the script without the little helper app. - Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/