Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > This is a problem of opposing goals. One group wants the system to be > > popular and easy to use for novices. The other group wants it to have > > technical excellence. It is exactly with issues such as this that > > they are opposing goals. > > But instead of reading options from an admin file (under /etc), > it could read options from a user file (under his $HOME). > > I think there could be at least 3 values for the ssh-agent option: > 1. Always start a ssh-agent. > 2. Never start a ssh-agent. > 3. Start a ssh-agent except if the user's .xsession file is used. > > Possibly other options for users of gnome-keyring-daemon (as if > I understand correctly, it can also start an ssh-agent)? > > (3) makes sense as the default, as users of a .xsession file > generally want to control things. Novices don't use a .xsession > file, so that there won't be any problem with them. Something like that would make sense to me. Bob
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