Why not use keychain and put it in the appropriate rc file (.bashrc, cshrc, etc.), then you'll be connected to the agent automatically.
on 02-15-2005, kilim wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:56:43PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I set ssh-agent just fine for a session from a xterm under X. > > >> > > >> > > >> But what I'd like to have is once I log in to have session start from > > >> my .profile so that when I do "startx" every subsequent xterm > > >> 'inherits' the ssh-agent so that I don't have to type in the password. > > >> > > >> Is such a thing do-able ? > > > > > > in ~/.xinit start your windowmanager with something like: > > correction: i have this in the file ~/.xsession , sorry. > > > "/usr/bin/ssh-agent ~/bin/startmywindowmanager" > > Thanks Lars ! > > I'm doing something like this, in my .xinitrc, as I start the X > from the command line using 'startx': > > /usr/bin/ssh-agent "/usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker" > > Then in the xterm I just type ssh-add and every consecutive xterm > can use ssh without prompting for the password. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Clayton Scott Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] The software states that it UNIX System Administrator requires Microsoft Windows 95, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Linux, Solaris, HP-UX higher, so I installed FreeBSD. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
