On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:38:30PM -0600, Clay Fandre wrote: > I'd suggest using keychain. It automatically takes care of all of this > for you. > http://www.gentoo.org/projects/keychain/ Hmm... Why not just use the shell script? ;-) Seriously, do I need to add yet another piece of software to my system??? I'm going to assume that keychain does lots of other very neat and blinky things, and there may actually be some need served by this software, but in my case, all I want is ssh-agent to be started and for all of my sessions (ssh, X, and console...all at the same time...) to use it. (I can't really comment on the software because www.gentoo.org is unreachable at this time -- Fri Apr 5 09:23:53 CST 2002). As far as the use-ssh-agent option that someone suggested for Debian's Xsession... Good suggestion, really. What if I don't use X? Kinda makes it a bit useless for a ssh session. ;-) There is one improvement I could make to that little BASH snippet. I could check for an existing environment variable before checking for that little .ssh-agent.$host file I created. If SSH_AGENT_PID exists and is populated, I could check for that PID instead of using the one in the file. That way Debian's little use-ssh-agent efforts won't be wasted. Anyway, back to work. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020407/8514d559/attachment.pgp