Re: A question about ssh-agent
On 04/02/12 19:05, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Some might think I have no business wanting to know the answer
> to this question, but
>bare with me:
Blink
Blink
:-/
(bear? I really hope *that*'s what you're requesting)
>
> Where in the start-up code of a system that is running ssh client is
> the ssh-agent started? It has got to be early in the process, but
> where? And what exactly is done? Should I be able to see it in an
> init.d script? It is a daemon, but it is only needed to support an
> add-on feature of as ssh client so it should be part of the code that
> gdm/xdm runs, I suppose. Or what? There should be distinct instances
> of the agent for each user, I think. Or is there a single single
> instance that maintains a list of logged in users and their several
> private keys? How is it really implement. I get the impression that it
> is different ways on different systems. I'm only interested in the
> Debian implementation (because it is the only one I can check up on)
> It seems that it is not run when I log into a host using ssh or more
> exactly its pid is not exported to an ssh login process. Could I add
> something to the .profile script? If this is possible, it surely
> has been thought of before me and better and worse ways of doing
> have been discussed, but I'm not finding anything. Pointers to
> HOWTOs? Is there a common name for doing this? Etc.
>
> TIA
>
/etc/init.d/ssh (it's a link from /etc/rc2.d)
Kind regards
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