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pathwalker
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Joined: 18 Jul 2003
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:43 pm Post subject: keychain / ssh-agent and kde |
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I gather from reading other posts, that others have had this problem -- but no one seems to have an answer, at least as far as I can see...
when I try to use ssh-agent under kde, it launches as one would expect, but generates this output: (I'll include the ssh-agent command to you can see it really is running)...
| Code: | bash-2.05b$ ssh-agent
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ofjr7511/agent.7511; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=7512; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 7512;
bash-2.05b$ ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. |
keychain appears to work -- that is, it starts the agent and asks me for my passphrase. However, when I try to ssh to a host that I know accepts my private key (works from red hat 9, for example), it still prompts me for my passphrase. Is there some freaky problem between kde and ssh-agent? |
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esammer
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Joined: 05 Apr 2003
Posts: 155
Location: NY, US
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:10 am Post subject: |
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While I do not use KDE, I do use ssh-agent (cvs development via ssh == typing passwords five billion times without it) all day everyday.
My current setup is just fluxbox, but the "secret" to ssh-agent is that the environment variables SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCK need to be exported into the environment prior to ssh-add's execution. Here's a simple trick that works: put ssh-agent in your user's $HOME/.xinitrc file so when you run startx, ssh-agent is run PRIOR to kde starting thus the environment is setup properly. I have a feeling that whatever kde does, it doesn't establish and export the environment properly.
For reference, here's my .xinitrc:
...which runs ssh-agent and 'fluxbox' as the process that inherits the environment.
This *should* work even in a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome.
HTH. |
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