On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Paul Mullen wrote: > Manually running ssh-agent will start up another process, but it won't > export any environment variables. You have to do that yourself.
True. > (This is unnecesssary if an ssh-agent process was already started > automatically at login, either via an X display manager or > ~/.bash_profile.) And why it's not automatically started at login, from ~/.bash_profile, is another issue needing resolution. > Since you don't have any ssh environment variables set on your typha > login, kill any existing ssh-agent processes that belong to you (`killall > ssh-agent`) and start a fresh process. This time, run `eval $(ssh-agent)`. > It should only output a single line, "Agent pid nnnn". Now, you should > have environment variables set. Verify with `env | grep SSH`. Done. Still cannot connect since ssh tells me there's no identity file id_ed25519 which does exist. Quite puzzling ... to me, at least. Thanks, Paul, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
