Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 14:47 -0500, John Weekley wrote:
I just successfully upgraded to build 46 and ran across in a process list:
/usr/bin/ssh-agent -- /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
/usr/bin/gnome-s
Is this a method to assist in caching ssh keys? If so, how can I
use/extend it? The docs are a little sketchy at this point.
ssh-agent has a manual page. It has nothing to do with dbus, though,
it's part of ssh.
I read manpages. More frequently with the later SXCR releases. And I'm
pretty familiar with the SSH package. Gnome and dbus on the other hand,
I'm not as familiar with.
The GNOME session has been started via ssh-agent for quite a while.
This means that all GNOME apps are started as ssh clients and
therefore running ssh-add will affect all programs started from the
GNOME session.
An interesting approach, when was it introduced into SXCR?
What's different in snv_46 is that dbus is now included so ssh-agent
now starts dbus-launch which will start gnome-session. When the
session ends, gnome-session exits and the dbus session daemon and
ssh-agent both exit with it.
Laca
The mechanics I understood, I guess I wasn't clear in my original
question. It's the rationale of the ssh-agent and dbus combination
(and the possibilities for use with other apps) that I was asking about.
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