Re: ssh-agent

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:39:58PM +0000, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> Forgive me if this is cretinous beyond compare, but I am confused. I am 
> on a standalone machine, and never use SSH, and yet there is an 
> SSH-agent in my /tmp. Is this normal?

I believe that Debian's default X session scripts run your X session
inside an ssh-agent. It shouldn't cause any kind of problem,
security-related or otherwise; it's just there if you want it.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]