Hello and thanks for your reply! Well I took your advice and removed that keychain scriptlet from .bashrc and put it into .bash_profile. Not sure what the functional difference between the two would be. Perhaps you would care to elaborate? I know that rc stands for "resource configuration" but other than that I don't know why this statement would be more appropriate in the .bash_profile. However you do seem well versed in this and I hope you don't mind answering this question.
So this is what I put into my .bash_profile $(keychain --eval --agents ssh id_rsa) and here is an ssh session from after when I did this: [bluethundr@LCENT01:~]#bash [bluethundr@LCENT01:~]#ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-cBwwRR5466/agent.5466; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=5467; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 5467; [bluethundr@LCENT01:~]#ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. [bluethundr@LCENT01:~]#exec ssh-agent bash [bluethundr@LCENT01:~]#ssh-add Enter passphrase for /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa: Identity added: /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa) So this behavior did not change. I still have to enter my passphrase again after I put this into my .bash_profile [bluethundr@LCENT01:~]#ssh virt1 Last login: Sat Jan 15 11:51:08 2011 from 192.168.1.42 ######################################################### # SUMMITNJHOME.COM # # TITLE: LB1 BOX # # HOST: VIRTCENT01 # # LOCATION: SUMMIT BASEMENT # ######################################################### * keychain 2.7.0 ~ http://www.funtoo.org * Found existing ssh-agent: 27556 * Adding 1 ssh key(s): /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa Enter passphrase for /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa: * ssh-add: Identities added: /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa This is new.. now I get prompted for the passphrase AGAIN once I reach the server I am ssh'ing in to. I should point out that I am operating from a shared NFS mounted home directory. -bash: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-Tqzln27555/agent.27555;: No such file or directory [bluethundr@VIRTCENT01:~]#ssh virt2 ssh: connect to host virt2 port 22: No route to host [bluethundr@VIRTCENT01:~]#ssh sum2 Enter passphrase for key '/home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa': Enter passphrase for key '/home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa': Last login: Sat Jan 15 10:54:51 2011 from 192.168.1.50 ######################################################### # SUMMITNJHOME.COM # # TITLE: SUM2 BOX # # HOST: LCENT02 # # LOCATION: SUMMIT BASEMENT # ######################################################### * keychain 2.7.0 ~ http://www.funtoo.org * Starting ssh-agent... * Adding 1 ssh key(s): /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa Enter passphrase for /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa: * ssh-add: Identities added: /home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa -bash: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-JGlcJj6111/agent.6111;: No such file or directory Well it seems that I am still trying to figure this situation out. If you have any further insight into what may be going on here I would certainly appreciate your input. On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Cameron Kerr <came...@humbledown.org> wrote: > > On 16/01/2011, at 11:56 AM, Cameron Kerr wrote: > > On 16/01/2011, at 5:22 AM, bluethundr wrote: > > I have this line in my .bashrc file > > $(keychain --eval --quick --quiet private_key1 private_key2 private_key3) > > Should not this go into your ~/.bash_profile? > > (disclaimer: I've not used the 'keychain' program before) > > > According to the docs for keychain, it should look something more like the > following: > eval `keychain --eval --agents ssh id_dsa` > The 'eval' at the start is probably more important than you think... I noted > myself that the following are quite different in a bash script I was working > on: > "$@" > eval "$@" > (only the latter works, the former ended up not doing anything in a > #!/bin/bash script) > https://github.com/funtoo/keychain and > http://www.funtoo.org/en/security/keychain/intro/ for more information > regarding keychain. You might also like adding || exit 1 or similar to > the 'eval' call, for debugging, as shown in the docs. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F186197B _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
