On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 07:52:55AM BST, Rosselur Rossen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have the following added to root's .profile:
>
> --snip--
> env=~/.ssh/agent.env
> agent_load_env () { test -f "$env" && . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }
> agent_start () {
> (umask 077; ssh-agent >| "$env")
> . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }
> agent_load_env
> # agent_run_state: 0=agent running w/ key; 1=agent w/o key; 2= agent
> not running
> agent_run_state=$(ssh-add -l >| /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)
> if [ ! "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] || [ $agent_run_state = 2 ]; then
> agent_start
> ssh-add
> elif [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && [ $agent_run_state = 1 ]; then
> ssh-add
> fi
> unset env
> --snip--
>
> OpenBSD 6.4 amd64.
> When I reboot the machine, it asks for my id_rsa password during
> system startup, which prevents most services from starting. Eventually
> all the password prompts time out and I am able to log in on the
> console, but most services including sshd have failed to start.
> The desired behaviour would be for the id_rsa password prompt to
> appear only when I am actually interactively logging in, and not
> during system boot.
> Is there any way I could achieve this for the root account? What am I
> doing wrong (apart from interactively logging in as root, I am well
> aware)?
>
Hi Rosselur,
$ man 1 ksh
[...] In order to have an interactive (as opposed to login)
shell process a startup file, ENV may be set and exported
(see below) in $HOME/.profile [...]
I won't quote all of it here - search for ENV.
Regards,
Raf
