kdm/ssh-agent
Hello
This has been bothering me for a while, but it hadn't impacted me much
until recently -- before my upgrade to KDE 3.3 (Debian Sid/Unstable),
kdm used to start the ssh-agent as part of my login process. This has
the side effect of sharing the agent environment variables through every
application I run under that session. After my upgrade, ssh-agent no
longer starts up, and of course, when I start it up manually, it only
serves apps started under the same shell. This really makes it much
bothersome to run CVS over SSH, SFTP in Konqueror and a lot of other
applications/utilities. I done my googling on the subject, and found out
that I needed to add "use-ssh-agent" to my "/etc/X11/Xsession.options"
file. I checked the file and the option is there:
# /etc/X11/Xsession.options
#
# configuration options for /etc/X11/Xsession
# See Xsession.options(5) for an explanation of the available options.
allow-failsafe
allow-user-resources
allow-user-xsession
use-ssh-agent
However, "/etc/kde3/kdm/" has no references whatsoever to
"/etc/X11/Xsession.options". I checked the "kdm.options" manpage for a
similar option, but to no avail. Has anyone else experienced this? What
was your solution (preferably, done in the Debian Way[tm])?
Thanks
Ulisses
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