Thanks everyone for their suggestions, I'll try both keychain and
invoking ssh-agent as exec.
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J.
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> On May 24, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>
> 24.05.2018 21:41, tech-lists wrote:
>
>> If I then run 'agent', prompts me for the keyphrase, then it works normally.
>> But I have to repeat this in every single opened terminal.
>
> You may like security/keychain port (or package).
24.05.2018 21:41, tech-lists wrote:
> If I then run 'agent', prompts me for the keyphrase, then it works normally.
> But I have to repeat this in every single opened terminal.
You may like security/keychain port (or package). I use it because of its
universal way to run ssh-agent:
no matter wha
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Charlie Li wrote:
> MATE loads all of gnome-keyring, including the ssh-agent portion.
neither here nor there, but gnome-keyring is bad at being an
ssh-agent. if you can in any way avoid it, your life will be better if
you do.
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On 24/05/2018 10:41, tech-lists wrote:
> However, this does not happen if MATE is loaded from xinit. It is as if
> I had not loaded the key at all before starting MATE. I get this error:
>
> sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation
>
> If I then run 'agent', prompts me for th
Hello lists,
For over a decade I've used windowmaker for my freebsd desktop. For easy
ssh/sftp access to sites, before starting windowmaker with xinit, I run
'agent' which is a tcsh alias for the following:
rm -f "$HOME"/.ssh/`hostname`.agent ; ssh-agent | grep -v echo >
"$HOME"/.ssh/`hostna
