[olug] keychain work for anyone?

[David Walker]

I am using keychain 2.0.1
It works for xterm, konsole, and tty with no problems.

Perhaps remove the "> /dev/null" and see if an error shows up

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:33 am, Brian Wiese wrote:
> hahaha, kewl. thanks.  My format is slightly different though.
>
> bwiese at franklin:~$ source ~/.ssh-agent-franklin
> bwiese at franklin:~$ ssh liberty
> Last login: Tue Feb 18 22:42:30 2003 from franklin.private
> Have a lot of fun...
> bwiese at liberty:~>
>
> .... but ...
> I do have this in my ~/.bash_profile ...
>
> /usr/bin/keychain -q ~/.ssh/id_rsa
> source ~/.ssh-agent-franklin > /dev/null
>
> This works when I log in on a tty (F1-F6), but not when I open new
> xterm/konsole windows while in X.  Is there another 'login script' file
> that I could put this code in to work everytime I open a new xterm... or
> do I just have to restart X?
>
> peace
>
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:26:50 -0600
>
> David Walker <linux_user at grax.com> wrote:
> |It works great for me.  I find it to be rather awesome.
> |I put a file containing the following in /etc/profile.d/keychain.sh
> |so it starts whenever I log in or open a new shell.
> |
> |if [ "$PS1" ]; then
> |        keychain ~/.ssh/id_dsa
> |        . ~/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh
> |fi
> |
> |Looks like you needed the second command to make it all work.
> |
> |On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:26 pm, Brian Wiese wrote:
> |> So I'm running keychain, but it's not working - doesn't do anything for
> |> me.  Does it work for anyone else?  To my understanding, when keychain
> |> is run - it asks for your passphrase to your private ssh keys, and will
> |> keep you authenticated as it negotiate future ssh sessions for you that
> |> ask for you to authenticate via said public keys.
>
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