On 0, David Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have downloaded OpenSSH and am trying to get it to work. The sshd is started in
>.xinitrc.
> > After logging in, the 'ps' command does list it:
> >
> > (0)root@myhost:~ => ps waux | grep ssh
> > root 18615 0.0 0.8 1424 536 ? S Jan19 0:01 sshd -f
>/usr/local/etc/sshd_config -h /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
>
> Er, this is starting an ssh *server* process when you log in.
> It's much more usual to have such a server process running all the time
> (or at least started from inetd) so it's listening all the time.
> Or don't run it at all if you don't want incoming connections.
> You don't need to run it to make *outgoing* ssh connections.
>
> > After that, I am issuing the ssh-agent command. I have tried 2 options.
> >
> > $ ssh-agent bash
> > $ ssh-agent login
> >
> > The instance of ssh-agent seem to be valid only for that xterm. Once the xterm is
> > terminated, the ssh-agent is terminated too.
>
> Yes. Think about the inheritance of the FD for the ssh-agent process.
> If you want it to be valid for all xterms started from the window manager
> and/or the desktop for a particular X session you have to run the
> manager process as a sub-process of ssh-agent. *My* .xsm file in my
> home directory starts the window manager under the control of ssh-agent:
> ssh-agent fvwm2
>
Thanks for replying.
I am starting the xsession as part of the ssh-agent. When do I use ssh-add?
Which key, identity or identity.pub should I use on the SSH client (in this case NT)?
Thank you once again.
Subba Rao
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