Re: ssh-agent

[HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Geoff Thurman wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> 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 have tried to put my mind at
> rest by reading the man pages, but couldn't convince myself that the
> thing should be on my machine at all. I've also googled some, but am
> nervous of spending too much time online if I might have a problem.
> Reassurance would be much appreciated.

Hi Geoff,

Here's a useful excerpt (I hope) from my SSH page:

"Hint Debian GNU/Linux and possibly other distributions too make it easy
on their users by starting an Agent automatically during the
initialization of X if in the file /etc/X11/Xsession.options the option
use-ssh-agent is activated. If the examples presented here are to be
used one must make sure that option is disabled."

Maybe you should check that file to see if that's the case in on your
system.

Sincerely,

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