Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 08:36:00AM +0000, Stephan Beck wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> Lars Noodén:
> > On 09/27/2016 06:07 PM, Stephan Beck wrote:
> >> Lars Noodén:
> >>> On 09/27/2016 02:02 PM, Stephan Beck wrote:
> >>> Can you tell more about how your login session is started?
> >>
> >> I connect to the "local ssh account" by ssh from my other user account.
> > 
> [...]
> > You need a way for your "local ssh account" to start and use an agent.
> > I'm not sure of the optimal way for you.  Perhaps something in .bashrc?
> > Others here know more about the shells than I.
> 
> Or in .profile. But I am not really sure about the exact syntax to use
> (this if/then "thing"). I still have to get familiar with that.
> 
> I just checked in LX Session Configuration that the ssh-agent is
> configured as -->Core applications but disabled in --> Autostart. So
> there is another program/process/script that has to be launching the
> ssh-agent, because I find it twice in the process list when I login to
> my "normal" user account. I'm shivering :-)

Yes. It depends. If you're typically using X as your environment
(perhaps via some desktop thing: in your case it seems to be LXDE),
then the first go to is your desktop thing's session management.

This way all consoles you start will inherit the "coordinates" of
the agent (in the form of the shell variables SSH_AGEN_PID,
SSH_AUTH_SOCK and perhaps others I forget). With no desktop environ
(plain X), X session management (see /etc/X11/XSession.d for
Debian; there is a 90x11-common_ssh-agent for that). Otherwise
you have to cook up something in your ~/.profile which looks
whether there's an agent around and set it up when no. In a nutshell


  - using a DE: your DE's session management
  - X without DE: X session management
  - naked console: .login, .profile (or .bash_profile, .bash_login)

Have fun
- -- t
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