On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 04:55:46PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hm, I see. Wouldn't it be possible to script this in a way that just > ssh-agent runs without the previously set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but the > program it runs maintains the previous path? Something like, or > equivalent to: > eval `ssh-agent -s` > the-program-to-run
Well, x11-common is welcome to implement it that way if it chooses to and if it actually works; note that the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent is not actually shipped by the openssh packages themselves, but rather by x11-common ... See bug #573325, filed a while back for this. Note that there are problems documented in that bug with making sure that ssh-agent has an appropriate lifetime, so it's not just as simple as the approach you suggest. (The approach used in the current Ubuntu development release where ssh-agent runs as an Upstart user job fixes this, but it may be some time before we can persuade Debian to switch to this!) > IMHO this issue should be mentioned in the manpage as well. That's where > I looked for any documentation about any effects on the environment, and > found none related to this problem. Fair enough; I've added something similar to the text in README.Debian there for my next upload. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
