Bug#203942: More flexible ssh-agent invocation

2003-08-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'ssh-agent -s' outputs a mini-script that sets the SSH_XXX variables. I would generally recommend against running it this way; the ssh-agent process can easily end up outliving your session, which is not necessarily ideal as far as security goes.

Bug#203942: More flexible ssh-agent invocation

2003-08-02 Thread Francois Gouget
Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.2.1-6 The way ssh-agent is started in 90xfree86-common_ssh-agent is not very flexible. In particular it makes it impossible to start extra processes like an xterm or two that would inherit the SSH_XXX environment variables. So what I propose is the following:

Bug#203942: More flexible ssh-agent invocation

2003-08-02 Thread Francois Gouget
Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.2.1-6 The way ssh-agent is started in 90xfree86-common_ssh-agent is not very flexible. In particular it makes it impossible to start extra processes like an xterm or two that would inherit the SSH_XXX environment variables. So what I propose is the following: