I found that Linpus doesn't start an SSH Agent by default upon startup, as I use SSH Agent Forwarding a fair bit this was a bit of a pain having to start a new instance of ssh-agent and add an identity each time I started a new terminal. I did a bit of digging around the Xwindows setup and found the following way to turn start up the ssh-agent when Xwindows starts.... Edit /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc Make sure lines 72-77 (inclusive) are uncommented... [code] sshagent=`which ssh-agent` kill_sshagent=0 if test -z "$SSH_AGENT_PID" -a "$sshagent" -a "x$sshagent" != "xno"; then eval `$sshagent -s` kill_sshagent=1 fi [/code] You don't have to change any of the lines, just make sure they're uncommented. Restart your computer and the ssh-agent will be started for you. You can then add your Identities to it using ssh-add whenever and however you please. Hope this might help someone.
