keychain + GNU screen problems [SOLVED]

d_m · Last edited by d_m on Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:42 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hey, I've been using keychain from within Gnome for awhile and it's a really sweet program. I have SSH keys set up properly and I don't have to use a password to SSH to my remote hosts from Gnome Terminal or XTerm.

Recently, I started using GNU screen on this box and no matter what I do it seems like I can't get screen to use the same SSH-agent. It asks me for my SSH key's password, which I give, and then SSH works, but I can't get it to detect the agent is running. I have tried starting keychain from within screen, and that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Do I need to have multiple ssh-agents running (one in the context of Gnome, one in the context of screen) for this to work? Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.
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Nuteater · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

It seems the environment variables associated with ssh-agent
need to be loaded inside the screen session to have effect.
Google came up with this:
http://unix.frogcircus.org/screen/ssh-agent
I hope it helps

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d_m · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks, that is really helpful!
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d_m · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

OK, so the trick that I have found is to populate ${HOME}/.ssh/screen_agent (or whatever you want to call the file) with something like this (assuming you're running a bourne compatible shell):