Accessing your gnome (ssh) keyring from outside the Desktop session
Philip Prindeville
philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Sun Jul 25 17:54:45 UTC 2010
On 7/24/10 7:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Philip A. Prindeville
> <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>> I normally leave a Gnome session running on my build machine for months
>> at a time, but don't always work directly on that machine (at it's
>> keyboard and monitor).
>>
>> Sometimes I ssh into it remotely to look at progress from automated
>> builds, and occasionally to push out a build.
>>
>> The issue is this: when I ssh into it, I don't have access to the keys
>> that I've stored in the ssh-agent.
>>
>> Well, it's not exactly an ssh-agent. It's the gnome-keyring-daemon that
>> gets started as part of the desktop as:
>>
>> /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh
>>
> <snip>
>> Anyone have a simple mechanism for getting that into your ssh sessions?
>>
> seahorse ought to help you with this.
>
Ok, I'll give it a look. But in general, just as X runs xinit.rc or .xsessionrc on startup, does Gnome desktop have a startup and exit script it runs? I need to bracket all of the "Startup Applications" with something that runs before, and something that runs after them (on exit).
Thanks.
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