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Re: user xsession or how to start ssh-add



On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:44:46PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How do I start ssh-add when X starts to add my key to the agent?
> (Agent is already running?)
> 
> I've tried to figure out what exactly happens when I do a startx,
> and followed several of the config files in /etc/X11/. I think
> I generally understood the concept of the xsession.d dir, which
> is pretty neat, but very hard to read...
> In Xsession.options I have the allow-user-xsession, so I was hoping
> that when I create a .xsession with the line
> 
> ssh-add &
> 
> it would be merged somehow to the rest.
> Well X didn't even start...

You don't want to background the ssh-add. You'll be prompted for
a passphrase, if needed.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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