Re: ssh-agent, keychain, xsession bash_profile scripting

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:11:14PM +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Jeff D on 15/01/10 17:00, wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>
>>> I've been chasing my tail trying to work this one out following different
>>> examples off the web, but can't sort it out and keep getting the old
>>>
>>> "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."
>>>
>>> from ssh-add, and nothing but inaction from keychain.
>>>
>>> I know everything has to run as a child of ssh-agent to gain access to its
>>> envvars, but I don't how to achieve this.
>>>
>>> keychain id_rsa in my .bash_profile doesn't work, I still have to give ssh my
>>> password for the private key when I use ssh.
>>>
>>> I guess I should be setting up the envvars in my bash env somehow when getting
>>> them via 'ssh-agent -s' but I don't know the syntax to do this.
>>>
>>> I always boot into a command line and then run startx when I need it, and I
>>> think herein lies the problem - although I can't get it to work on the command
>>> line either with keychain or ssh-add.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Adam
>>
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> from the command line you can run :
>>
>> ssh-agent bash
>> #that starts your agent for that shell, you will need to run that for each
>> shell you want to have access to your keys
>> ssh-add -i /path/to/your/key
>>
>>
>> For X, in /etc/X11/Xsession.options, check and make sure you have 
>> use-ssh-agent in there. 
> [SNIP]
>
> What I'm trying to do is to get this set up in my .bash_profile so that I 
> only need to type in my key password once when I log into the machine.
>
> I can't put the two command in my .bash_profile because the 2nd command 
> won't get executed until the first bash shell exits.
>
What about following the first command with:  &

Does that work?

-Rob