Comments on: Day 2 of 60: SSH agent authentication http://jc.ngo.org.uk/blog/2006/07/11/day-2-of-60-ssh-agent-authentication/ It'll all be over in 60 days Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Jens Elkner http://jc.ngo.org.uk/blog/2006/07/11/day-2-of-60-ssh-agent-authentication/#comment-83 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:53:26 +0000 http://jc.ngo.org.uk/blog/2006/07/11/day-2-of-60-ssh-agent-authentication/#comment-83 Well, I prefer to set it up in a global way, so that users may just call ssh-add [options] to add the credentials they want: --- /usr/dt/bin/Xsession.orig Thu Feb 23 14:18:36 2006 +++ /usr/dt/bin/Xsession Wed Aug 23 14:05:06 2006 @@ -714,6 +714,13 @@ fi export DT=true; + sshagent="`which ssh-agent`" + if [ -n "$sshagent" ] && [ -x "$sshagent" ] && [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then + startup="$sshagent -- $startup" + elif [ -z "$sshagent" ] ; then + Log "$0: ssh-agent not found!" + fi + case ${SHELL##*/} in csh ) $dtstart_shell -c "unsetenv _ PWD; \ Well, I prefer to set it up in a global way, so that users may just call ssh-add [options] to add the credentials they want:

— /usr/dt/bin/Xsession.orig Thu Feb 23 14:18:36 2006
+++ /usr/dt/bin/Xsession Wed Aug 23 14:05:06 2006
@@ -714,6 +714,13 @@
fi

export DT=true;
+ sshagent=”`which ssh-agent`”
+ if [ -n “$sshagent” ] && [ -x “$sshagent” ] && [ -z “$SSH_AUTH_SOCK” ]; then
+ startup=”$sshagent — $startup”
+ elif [ -z “$sshagent” ] ; then
+ Log “$0: ssh-agent not found!”
+ fi
+
case ${SHELL##*/} in

csh ) $dtstart_shell -c “unsetenv _ PWD; \

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