Hello all,

I am trying to configure ssh-agent at login and am having some problems. What I would like to do is have it so when I use ssh-add, the user added is valid from any term/bash session. More directly, I would like to have a launcher button on GkrellM execute a program on another box.

The problem I am having is getting the agent global. I tried adding it to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This caused bash some problems and gave me a no job something or other and a bash prompt on boot up. I then tried adding it to my .bashrc file. This did some bad things. I ended up in an endless loop when I tried to log in creating hundreds of ssh-agent threads and /bin/bash threads.

What I tried to add is: ssh-agent $SHELL. This may be wrong. Could someone please tell me what I need to do to get the agent global so I don't have to ssh from the same term window each time.

Thanks!!

PhilD

For anyone searching for something similar, the solution was the little script 'keychain' it works wonderfully and will even prompt for passphrases on user login. Check it out if you need something similar!

www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml


PhilD