On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Adam Hardy wrote: > I've been chasing my tail trying to work this one out following different > examples off the web, but can't sort it out and keep getting the old > > "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent." > > from ssh-add, and nothing but inaction from keychain. > > I know everything has to run as a child of ssh-agent to gain access to its > envvars, but I don't how to achieve this. > > keychain id_rsa in my .bash_profile doesn't work, I still have to give ssh my > password for the private key when I use ssh. > > I guess I should be setting up the envvars in my bash env somehow when getting > them via 'ssh-agent -s' but I don't know the syntax to do this. > > I always boot into a command line and then run startx when I need it, and I > think herein lies the problem - although I can't get it to work on the command > line either with keychain or ssh-add. > > Thanks > Adam
Hi Adam, from the command line you can run : ssh-agent bash #that starts your agent for that shell, you will need to run that for each shell you want to have access to your keys ssh-add -i /path/to/your/key For X, in /etc/X11/Xsession.options, check and make sure you have use-ssh-agent in there. That should automatically start your ssh-agent for your X session. Then from a term you can run something like this: #!/bin/sh if ! ps -P $SSH_AGENT_PID ; then echo " need to run ssh-agent" exit 0 fi if ssh-add -l| egrep -i "dsa|rsa" ; then echo "keys there" else echo "need to add .keys" ssh-add /path/to/id_dsa fi -- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org