On Sat, Aug 11 2012, Johnny wrote: > diogo...@gmail.com (Diogo F. S. Ramos) writes: > >> Johnny <yggdra...@gmx.co.uk> writes: >> >>> Is there a better way to run an authentication agent under stumpwm? How >>> do other users do? >> >> I'm not entirely sure what an "authentication agent" is, but whenever I >> have to run something along with stumpwm, I put it in my ~/.xinit or >> start it from ~/.stumpwmrc. >> >> I even saw people running ssh-agent from ~/.xinit. > > I don't understand the full workings, but basically an authentication > agent is used by an application to run as another user, e.g. in this > case I am running virt-manager as a normal user, and the authentication > agent (when running) pops up and lets me run the application by giving > root credentials. Without this, virt-manager will not let me access the > virtual machines. > > I could probably put the command in one of the init files, but I am sure > other users must have similar applications and wonder if there is a > better way to resolve authentication?
It's the thing that lets you mount USB drives and shutdown without the use of sudo, for instance! It's a big deal, and the main reason that I ended up using stumpwm inside xfce, instead of on its own. So no, I don't have any real solution for you, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone else does… Eric _______________________________________________ Stumpwm-devel mailing list Stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/stumpwm-devel
