Title: RE: starting ssh-agent as the master bash process

So then how can ssh-agent be run, only once, automatically at the command line login?  I've heard of people using special PAM modules to perform this, but I can't find any docs on it.

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Mike Cannon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Friedl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:30 AM
To: Cannon, Mike R.
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: starting ssh-agent as the master bash process


On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:24:36AM -0500, Cannon, Mike R. wrote:
> I thought I could modify /etc/passwd and set my shell to
> /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/bash

that's a bad idea, since many programs use
        $SHELL (pw->pw_shell)
to execute programms.
additionaly, for every loginshell a new agent gets
started and agentforwarding will break.

moreover, you need a _single_ program as a login shell.

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