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| author | William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com> | 2020-03-13T12·17+0000 |
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| committer | William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com> | 2020-03-13T12·17+0000 |
| commit | 4509fb5e50ec71749c7d1df7cca20652b689e820 (patch) | |
| tree | cadbf5a624e64abf224512865f0a993c9f0589e5 | |
| parent | 3c73f735175da8449712a2a4ccda5663cb1813c4 (diff) | |
Restore ssh-agent initialize in ~/.profile
For two days I tried using gpg-agent to emulate ssh-agent, but it did not work the same way as ssh-agent. For example, gcert stopped working. Also, when I tried adding keys to ~/.gnupg/sshcontrol using `ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa`, the command failed. While the concept of reusing gpg-agent for ssh-agent appeals to me... - Fewer agent processes - pinentry support ...in practice, it fell short of my expectations. Some or all of this may be because I tried running this on a gLinux machine.
| -rw-r--r-- | configs/.profile | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configs/.profile b/configs/.profile index 2237bb144513..fef9ef814e49 100644 --- a/configs/.profile +++ b/configs/.profile @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ if [ -z "$DISPLAY" -a "$(tty)" = '/dev/tty5' ]; then exec xinit -- vt05 fi +# I tried configuring home-manager to generate the ssh-agent init code (i.e. the +# code below), but it seems that the home-manager community support using +# gpg-agent to emulate the ssh-agent. I tried that, but I didn't fully +# understand the benefits. +eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" + # This fixes nixpkgs that rely on glibc-2.27, which allegedly breaks locale # issues. # See this thread for more details: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/8398 |