On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Steve Dum wrote: > If you're using neither of these window management systems, there is a > tool called Keychain, that provides the same sort of service. You invoke > keychain in your .login (or other appropriate startup script) with a mode > setting and list of public keys, and it takes care of the rest.
Steve, Perhaps Xfce4 has a keychain. > The gnome and kde solutions are designed to terminate the agent when you log > off. Killing the ssh-agent PID can be done in ~/.bash_logout. Heh! I just checked that file on my server/workstation and I added ssh-agent kill many years ago. Not sure if it's on the other hosts, though. > All three of these solutions (and your adding ssh-agent and ssh-add to > your .bash_login script) have the same effect. When you log in you get > prompted once for a passwd. The first three delay the prompt until you > actually try to use ssh. Which works for me as I normally work on only one host while in the office. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
