Re: ssh-agent without graphical display manager? how?
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Paul E Condon <pec@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting from nfs to sshfs on my home-grown
> file-server/backup-server computer. This computer does not run Xwindows
> or any other graphical manager. I control it mostly by logging into it
> using ssh. But when I log in this way, it appears that ssh-agent is
> not started, and consequently, I cannot use ssh-add on it. I can, of
> course, use ssh-add on my desktop computer, but that is not where the
> private key for the backup server is stored. Has anyone confronted
> this situation and worked out a solution? Advice?
I haven't tried this, but does running ssh-agent from ~/.ssh/rc (or
/etc/ssh/sshrc) do what you need?
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