On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 11:40 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > > On 21/02/2008, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Chris G wrote: > >> > >> > I'm running Fedora 7 but I *don't* want ssh-agent started > >> > automatically, it gets in the way of an ssh pipe I sometimes need to > >> > create. > >> > > >> > I can't see any 'proper' way to prevent it from starting, it appears > >> > to be hard-coded in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common (and the scripts > >> > that call it). Am I missing something or is this really not > >> > configurable? > >> > >> > >> Atm, all hard-coded, I'm afraid. Proposals have been floating around how > >> to > >> make this robust, configurable (and to allow other sorts of session > >> agents, including, for example, gpg-agent), but nothing has come of that > >> yet. > > > > Do you have links to any information on these proposals? - I ask > > because I've been looking at the possibilities of better integrating > > the seahorse agent with fedora too. > > Note DavidZ's insightful comments on: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427316#c6 > > -- Rex > > Hi Slightly off-topic !! I'm using F8 x86-64 kdm/kde I have been putting a 3 line script in /etc/kde/env to get ssh-agent working To enable ssh-agent then create the file /etc/kde/env/ssh_agent_enable.sh #!/bin/sh eval `ssh-agent` /usr/bin/ssh-add Is this wrong ? How should I have been doing it ???? John
