keychain in dapper
Roger Haxton
rhaxton at swbell.net
Wed May 17 20:02:52 UTC 2006
On Wednesday May 17 2006 14:13, Luis wrote:
> keychain runs normally by gnome-session when you start your session.
> you don't need to tinker Ubuntu (or Debian) for the ask pass program
> to be called. My advise to you is to do:
>
> apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>
> (or if you are a kde lover, install the kde desktop pacakge)
>
> And then before you login, backup your .gnome* and .gconf* directories
> to another location, and start fresh.
>
> My guess is that you have some setting that modifies your session to
> behave this way. Those settings could be old
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.{defaults,mandatory} files as well... You might
> want to move those directories from /etc/gconf and let the real
> defaults take over (hint: /var/lib/gconf).
>
> Hope that helps.
According to the manpage, keychain is normally run from .bash_profile. And
this is how I have had it setup in SuSE and it works as advertised (ie. it
calls askpass when I login and starts an ssh-agent process which keeps my
keys in memory.) Adding this to gnome-session sounds lovely for GNOME, but I
doubt would get started if I fire up a KDE session. (BTW, I already have
ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop installed and this is a fresh install of
Ubuntu on a clean partition.) The reason I want this to fire off from
~/.bash_profile is that this works no matter which WM I choose and is
(according to the manpage) the normal way this is run.
So, the question then becomes, how do I get Ubuntu/Kubuntu to source
~/.bash_profile on login?
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