Woot!!!!!

You rule!  Exactly what I was after... I was even reading manpages today 
trying to figure out how to do this :)

THANKS!

       Ian

Luke Mewburn wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:34:09PM -0800, Ian Main wrote:
>  | Actually I've been trying to use ssh-agent with screen and it doesn't do 
>  | what I want.  I wonder if you have solved this?
>  | 
>  | I run ssh-agent screen, fire up a few screens, do my ssh-add, and it 
>  | works it's magic while I'm connected to that session.  Soon as I 
>  | disconnect from screen and reconnect my ssh-agent isn't running anymore 
>  | (or at least ssh-add fails to connect to it).
>  | 
>  | There a way around this?   What I really want is to have my key 
>  | permanently in screen :)
>
>
>For the "initial" creation of screen:
>	eval `ssh-agent`
>	ssh-add
>	screen
>
>Even if you detach that screen and exit the shell that you do
>the `eval ssh-agent` in, screen will still have the agent.
>
>For the subsequent screen reattachs, you can just do the following
>from any other connection;
>	screen -r
>or
>	screen -x
>
>Once you quit that screen session you'll still have an agent
>running that you can either attach other sessions to, or you can
>just kill that agent.  (This usually just happens when I reboot).
>
>
>I actually prefer "screen -x" over "screen -r".  It lets me do the
>following:
>
>	1. Setup agent, create initial screen session (as above)
>
>	2. Open more xterms, "screen -x" in each one.
>	   I now have multiple parallel "views" into the same screen.
>
>	3. Use another system to connect to the system running screen.
>	   Run "screen -x" there too.  I now have access to all my
>	   other screens without affect my open sessions (views) on
>	   my primary workstation.
>
>"mmm, screen -x"
>
>
>Cheers,
>Luke.
>  
>