Re: user xsession or how to start ssh-add
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Balazs Javor wrote:
>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
Firstly, xsession is what is run when you are logged in by something like
xdm or kdm, or gdm. For using startx, you want .xinitrc. Edit
/usr/bin/startx to verify.
Assuming you have ssh-agent runnung (if not, use this line in your
.xsession)
exec ssh-agent fvwm2
(replace fvwm2 with whatever you use)
>ssh-add &
You may want to change this to
ssh-add < /dev/null
And make sure you have ssh-askpass installed.
This should be run by your Window Manager (perhaps you can use xclients
file)
Cameron Kerr
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cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/
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