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Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?



On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:22:27PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:45:57 +0200
> Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Paul,
> > 
> > Am 2007-04-07 20:26:23, schrieb Paul E Condon:
> > > Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of
> > > events that bring up X and Gnome.  I don't reboot often, but when I
> > > do, I forget to run ssh-add.  Where can I place an invocation of
> > > ssh-add so that it is run once just after login? I think there must be
> > > a Debianly correct answer. What is it?
> > 
> > I do not know, why you want to start ssh-agent manualy, but I have a
> > Development-Station where on ALL releases (Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny
> > and Sid) the "ssh-agent" starts automaticaly.
> > 
> > I have NEVER started it by hand since it is started by
> > "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent" automaticaly.
> > Please look in
> > 
> >     man 5 Xsession.options
> > 
> > to solve this misbehaviour.
> 
> You're misreading his question; ssh-agent is configured by default to
> start automagically, but not ssh-add.
> 
> Celejar

why not in .bashrc - presuming the key doesn't have a password 

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