Klaus Slott said the following on 12/27/2008 11:26 PM:
Lørdag den 27. December 2008 16:32:10 skrev Anton Aylward:
I have in my ~/.bash_profile the code to call 'keychain' and set up the environment so that I can ssh to other machines without repeatedly having to enter my keyphrase.
I'v never used keychain, but ssh agent does give the same functionality. See ssh-add - and it does work in 11.1
:-) keychain is a front end for ssh-agent and/or gpg-agent depending on how you invoke it.
I am a KDE user so I have a program icon in ~/.kde/Autostart which calls /usr/bin/ssh-add. That way I can use ssh from every program on this desktop: xerm, unison, konq-fish ect.
That is EXACTLY what I used to acheive with starting keychain in .bash_profile, only it applied when I wasn't using KDE becuase it was in the shell startup. Look 'under the hood' at keychain or run "keychain --help" As I said, I used to get the prompt for my passphrase after logging in, a nice GUI prompt :-) Now, in 11.1, don't. And it seems that the pgp and ssh agents aren't started either. I don't understand "icon" in ~/kde/Autostart. "Icon"??? Why not ~/kde4? What about Gnome users? Surely having it in ~/.bash_profile makes more sense? Or has the way KDE starts up changed in 11.1 so that .bash_profile is now ignored? -- Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org