[gentoo-dev] keychain questions

[gentoo-dev] keychain questions

[R. Dicaire]

Hi Daniel, I tried keychain v1.2, but got some strange behaviour that resulted 
in inconsistent multiple ssh-agents being started for the same user.
I downloaded v1.3, and will try it out when I get a chance.

My question is:
After the machine is booted, and I log in to a local console, keychain starts 
fine, I get prompted for my passphrases, and ~/.ssh-agent is successfully 
written. Once this is done, I startx (not using [gkx]dm). Now when I open an 
xterm -ls, most of the time keychain runs successfully from my shell init, and 
it tells me the keys are added. Inconsistently when opening a new xterm -ls, 
it'd start a new ssh-agent, and prompt me again for passphrases, and 
additional ssh-agents are started. Why aren't the variables exported from the 
initial console login? Do I also need to source ~/.ssh-agent* from ~/.xinitrc 
as well?

This is on a Slackware 8 box, kernel 2.4.9, keychain v1.2, bash version 
2.05.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu).

Thanks.
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