KeyChain and Fedora

[Greg Rundlett]

I use KeyChain [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml] to automate 
my ssh-agent so that I can do rsync commands from cron.  KeyChain *was* 
activated by my .bash_profile.  This means that I would only need to 
enter my private key password upon rebooting the system, but as long as 
the system remained up, my cron jobs would work unattended as intended. ;-)

With RedHat 8.0, I would get a login XSession error that my session 
lasted less than 10 seconds, and X would restart.  The second login 
would work, so this 'bug' only forced two logins every time the machine 
was rebooted.  With Fedora Core 1, this 'workaround' no longer works.  
You can't login to X with KeyChain in your .bash_profile.  I removed 
KeyChain from my .bash_profile and started the application manually by 
simply running the 'Keychain' command from the shell.  This works fine, 
you just have to remember to do it every time you reboot/login to the 
system.

Hope this helps somebody.

-- 
Greg Rundlett
CTO
Knowledge Institute

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