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olocin

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Registered: 2018-01-03

Posts: 171

eval vs export gnome-keyring demon in xinitrc

The arch wiki, wrt gnome-keyring unlocking at login for nm-applet to use it, suggests, among other things, to have in .xinitrc

eval $(/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=pkcs11,secrets,ssh)
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK

while the gentoo wiki has similar but different

export $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=pkcs11,secrets,ssh,gpg)

Both seem to work equally well for me, but I'd like to understand the differences, if any.
Is anyone so kind to explain it to me in layman's terms?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,480

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Re: eval vs export gnome-keyring demon in xinitrc

I gather the gnome-keyring-daemon returns "SSH_AUTH_SOCK=...".  In that case, the two are equivalent except that the first has a useless `eval` and the second includes gpg.

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