On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:

: #  Aty first login, run "ssh-add", which will prompt you for your passphrase,
: #  and ssh-agent will take care of all your authentication until you log out.
: #  See the ssh-agent(8) page for more info; note that running ssh-agent in the
: #  background instead of as a parent of your shell is *not* recommended.
: 
: Does this work with xdm at all?  Ie: could I run ssh-agent inside the xdm
: startup, and then ssh-add myself when I log in?

Sure; make ssh-agent a parent of the window manager that you exec at the end
of .xinitrc.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)