On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 02:30:03PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > I just spent a few days fighting ssh-agent. This normally trivial > affair has taken far too long. After much head scratching, I've tracked > the problem down. > > FreeBSD's /bin/sh behaves differently than other systems. The commands: > sh -c export -p > and > sh -c "export -p" > are treated differently. The trouble is that this dark corner of shell > syntax is actually used in Xsession that's shipped with KDE4: > > */csh|*/tcsh) > # [t]cshrc is always sourced automatically. > # Note that sourcing csh.login after .cshrc is non-standard. > xsess_tmp=`mktemp /tmp/xsess-env-XXXXXX` > $SHELL -c "if (-f /etc/csh.login) source /etc/csh.login; if (-f > ~/.login) source ~/.login; /bin/sh > -c export -p >! $xsess_tmp" > . $xsess_tmp > rm -f $xsess_tmp > ;; > > The obvious fix of single quoting the export -p command above appears to > work for me. While I'm working with jilles@ to see if this difference > is normal variation in the implementation of a POSIX shell, or a bug, we > need a patch to the appropriate port so that we work correctly for users > whose login shell is csh or tcsh. The effect of this bug is that no > variables set in .login are visible to kde, which makes it impossible to > do the normal thing of setting up the ssh-agent there (in some cases). > > I'm not entirely sure what the right port is, since I'm using PC-BSD 8.1 > (Hubble Edition), so I thought I'd raise this issue here so that people > can work on the issue, give me pointers, etc. I've cc'd Kris Moore who > is the pc-bsd lead so he knows about the issue. > > Comments? > > Warner
I've gone ahead and fixed the Xsession we ship in PC-BSD, however this won't correct it for FreeBSD KDE users. This file is generated when the user runs "genkdmconf", and I confimed that it still produces the broken Xsession. We'll need to get it fixed there for everybody :) -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
