[launchd-dev] Environment variables

[Dave Zarzycki]

This is all context sensitive. Right now, the ssh-agent is only loaded  
into the GUI login context. The environment variable it exports is  
only available to the jobs associated with that session.

Where are you installing your plist?

If you're loading it by hand, what arguments are you passing to the  
'launchctl' tool?


davez


On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The man page for launchd.plist says:
>
> SecureSocketWithKey <string>
> This optional key is a variant of SockPathName. Instead of binding to
> a known path, a securely generated socket is created and the path is
> assigned to the environment variable that is inherited by all jobs
> spawned by launchd.
>
> However, the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable generated by Leopard's
> /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist doesn't seem
> to be available to my ~/Library/LaunchAgents. E.g. the following:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://
> www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
>  <key>Label</key>
>  <string>test.7B21D717-E7AE-4DB0-905F-7D40F8A6ABE2</string>
>  <key>Program</key>
>  <string>/usr/bin/env</string>
>  <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
>  <dict>
>    <key>Wait</key>
>    <false/>
>  </dict>
>  <key>Sockets</key>
>  <dict>
>    <key>Listeners</key>
>    <dict>
>      <key>SockNodeName</key>
>      <string>127.0.0.1</string>
>      <key>SockFamily</key>
>      <string>IPv4</string>
>      <key>SockServiceName</key>
>      <string>34567</string>
>    </dict>
>  </dict>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>
> when accessed via 'nc localhost 34567' generates a list of several
> environment variables, none of which is SSH_AUTH_SOCK.
>
> Is this the expected behaviour? If so, how can I make a LaunchAgent
> for ssh that can access my ssh-agent across reboots?
>
> Thanks,
> Hamish
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