Re: ssh-agent and gnome?

[Albert Schueller <schuelaw whitman edu>]

Quoting Matt Stockdale (mstockda@dti.net):
> has anyone had any luck using ssh-agent (from openssh) to start their
> gnome-session? I've tried putting it in my .gnomerc (I start gnome
> from GDM) as "ssh-agent gnome-session" but it doesn't start ssh-agent
> (or at least, it fails to stay started..) and certainly doesn't pass
> the environment vars to everything. as it stands, I hacked it to work
> by having it echo the correct environment vars into a file that then
> gets sourced by my .tcshrc, but of course that only works if I want to
> ssh from a tcsh. 
> 

putting it into .gnomerc would be too late since ssh-agent covers
all children of the commandline process.  If you are starting gnome from
a text console (e.g. not from gdm, xdm or some similar) just put the
following alias in your .tcshrc:

alias x ssh-agent startx

works for me.

Albert