Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

[John Jolet]

On May 28, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> On 5/27/06, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote:
> That does not work for ssh/scp sessions.  I usually test $PS1 to tell
> > if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an
> > scp session,
> > although .bashrc gets called.
> can you give us an example of what your .bashrc looks like?
>
> Well, the whole thing is kinda long, but the part I was fooling
> with lately
> now looks like this, and partly automates the use of ssh-agent for my
> (very frequent) use of ssh from home to some machines at work.  The
> problem was probably either the "echo" commands or that this actually
> proceeds within a subshell.
>
>
> if [ "x" != "x$PS1" ] ; then
>     SHELL_LOGIN=1
> else
>     # Probably scp; empty string is false
>     SHELL_LOGIN=
> fi
>
> if [ -n "$SHELL_LOGIN" ]
> then
>     if [ -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" ]
>     then
>         # not yet running in ssh-agent
>         ssh-agent /bin/bash
>         r=$?
>         echo Done with ssh-agent
>         sleep 1
>         exit $r
>     else
>         # this is an ssh-agent subshell
>         echo You may want to run ssh-add.
>     fi
> fi
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

well, you could comment out the "echo" commands and try it.   
personally, I try to stay away from things happening automatically  
for me.  just my preference.  I would rename .bashrc to something  
else, like old.bashrc and do the scp and see if that works.   
depending on what your needs are, you could also add a second user  
with the same uid, but a different home directory and use that other  
user for scp..... shrug.  not a big fan of ssh_agent (or anything  
that caches credentials).
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