[kde-linux] Starting ssh at log-in

[Boyan Tabakov]

On 21.11.2006 12:18, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 20 November 2006 20:38, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
> > If the machine from which you initiate your backup (e.g. your private
> > machine) is secure enough, yes, I would definitely recommend that you use
> > a public key authentication method to log to the remote machine. This
> > will make the hole process automatic and you won't be asked to enter any
> > password.
> >
> > To enable public key authentication, you should simple copy your ssh
> > client's public key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on your remote
> > machine. Your public key can be found in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub or
> > ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub files (depending on the algorithm). If no keys are
> > already generated, do so with the ssh-keygen command (simply 'ssh-keygen
> > -t [rsa|dsa]). Remember not to enter a passphrase, because if one is
> > present you will be prompted to enter it to unlock the key and not doing
> > this was the very reason we began with.
>
> No, that's a misunderstanding.  I do want to have to give the passphrase. 
> I just want to be asked for it as early as possible, rather than on me
> remembering to open a konsole.

Well then, it sounds to me that a saved konsole session (I mean a session 
settings for konsole itself and not a kde session) should do the job for you.

Launch Konsole, go to Settings->Configure Konsole->Session Tab and create a 
new session with the Execute field containing the invocation of your script, 
e.g. 'ssh user at host some-command'
Save the session and then in ~/.kde/Autostart add the following script:

#!/bin/bash

konsole --type 'My Saved Session Name'

If you don't want to save a special session for that, you can skip that step 
and just have the script:

#!/bin/bash

konsole -e 'your command goes here'

This should open a konsole window and execute what you need each time you 
start KDE.

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