freebsd stable - May 2018 - problems with ssh-agent after running MATE desktop

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 what DE or window manager you use and how do you start it or not at
all, working in ssh or console only.

One just adds single line to its login shell script, for bash it is
~/.bash_login:

eval `keychain --eval $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa $HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519 $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa`

First time after machine reboots (sic!) it asks you for passphrase (if needed)
when you log in starting interactive login shell (no matter which way:
ssh/X/console) and that's all.
It won't ask you again until next reboot, or ssh-agent reset by some other
way.

You may even disconnect completely and it reuses started ssh-agent next time you
log in again.

> On May 24, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net>
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). I use it because of its
universal way to run ssh-agent:
> no matter what DE or window manager you use and how do you start it or not
at all, working in ssh or console only.
> 
> One just adds single line to its login shell script, for bash it is
~/.bash_login:
> 
> eval `keychain --eval $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa $HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519
$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa`
> 
> First time after machine reboots (sic!) it asks you for passphrase (if
needed)
> when you log in starting interactive login shell (no matter which way:
ssh/X/console) and that's all.
> It won't ask you again until next reboot, or ssh-agent reset by some
other way.
> 
> You may even disconnect completely and it reuses started ssh-agent next
time you log in again.

I still use windowmaker as my primary desktop . However what I do in .xinitrc 
is ? ssh-agent wmaker? . Ssh-agent?s man page states it can be used in place of
exec in shell scripts to inject its environment into wmaker and its child
processes like xterm or urxvt in my case .  You use to be able to do this in kde
I am not 100% sure about gnome but it?s worth trying if you don?t like keyring.

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