Re: ssh-agent and gnome?

[Troy Carter <tcarter Princeton EDU>]

> 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.
> 
> TIA,
>   Matt
> 

You don't have to change system wide scripts like Xsession or alias
startx, just try the following in your .gnomerc (this is my .gnomerc):

#! /bin/sh
#
. $HOME/.env
eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add < /dev/null
gnome-session
eval `ssh-agent -k`

-Troy

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Troy Carter                    
tcarter@princeton.edu