[FreeNX-kNX] Using SSH agent & gpg-agent inside FreeNX session

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hello,

I am currently testing a nice Thin-Client with DVI output suitable for high 
quality output of higher resolutions than 1024x768 ;) with NXClient and a 
FreeNX server on my workstation.

I found that using ssh-agent does not work as usual cause then ssh-add 
complains that it cannot connect to the SSH client. And without ssh-agent I 
cannot use "ssh -A" anymore to do my daily administration work.

I guess this is due to the way NX / FreeNX works using an SSH connection 
itself. Is there any way to make SSH client work inside an FreeNX session? I 
googled around a bit but did not find anything related to that topic.

With the same thin client using a XDMCP session I can use ssh-agent just nice.

The NX-Client in use on the thin client is: 1.5.0-103. I have disabled SSL 
encryption. I tried with NX-Client 1.5.0-135 on my notebook as well.

Along with:

ms at mango:~$ apt-cache policy freenx
freenx:
  Installiert:0.4.4+0.4.5-2sarge1
  Mögliche Pakete:0.4.4+0.4.5-2sarge1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.4.4+0.4.5-2sarge1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Same goes with the gpg-agent which according to an error message of kgpg also 
does not work.

Regards,
-- 
Martin Steigerwald - team(ix) GmbH - http://www.teamix.de
gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90