Thread: Managing ssh-agent
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-03-15 , 21:42
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#4
Originally Posted by nyarlathotep View Post
I'd suggest starting the ssh-agent before X because otherwise tasks spawned outside a shell don't have access.
A good thought. I've added /etc/X11/Xsession.d/00ssh-agent containing:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
eval `ssh-agent -s -t 900`
That seems to do the job of starting the agent along with X, making the environment variables accessible to all launched applications.
 

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