ssh-askpass in F7

marozsas · 06-05-2007, 07:29 AM

Hi !

I am migrating from openSuSE 10.2 to F7.

I used to have a $HOME/.xinitrc with the following content, near to the end of file:

Code:

eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add

So, during this X session I don't need to type my passphrase to open my $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa file, each time I want to ssh some server.

How to get the same funcionallity in F7 ?

Looks like the default /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file provided with F7 call ssh-agent in a different way, so I am not sure how to integrate ssh-add and gaskpass with the xinitrc file from F7.

from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common:

Code:

...
# Prefix launch of session with ssh-agent if available and not already running.
SSH_AGENT=
if [ -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent -a -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]; then
    if [ "x$TMPDIR" != "x" ]; then
        SSH_AGENT="/usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/env TMPDIR=$TMPDIR"
    else
        SSH_AGENT="/usr/bin/ssh-agent"
  fi
fi
...

and, from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:

Code:

...
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
    exec $SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients || \
    exec $SSH_AGENT /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
...

I try to modify the line, from:

Code:

SSH_AGENT="/usr/bin/ssh-agent"

to

Code:

SSH_AGENT="eval `ssh-agent -s`; gaskpass | ssh-add"

but no success...

If anyone has the solution, or at least better ideas, please !

marozsas · 06-19-2007, 12:39 PM

If there are anyone following this thread, I found a solution, more simple than I expected.

Copy /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients to $HOME/.Xclients and add "/usr/bin/ssh-add" just after GSESSION and STARTKDE lines.

The resulting file looks like:

Code:

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

GSESSION="$(which gnome-session 2>/dev/null)"
STARTKDE="$(which startkde 2>/dev/null)"

# Run ssh-add
/usr/bin/ssh-add

# check to see if the user has a preferred desktop
PREFERRED=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then