Re: ssh-agent

[Greg Norris <haphazard@kc.rr.com>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:58:26AM +0000, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> Thank you. This is a great relief, particularly coming, as it does, from 
> such an authoritative source. I now understand the man pages a bit 
> better, too. I have still removed the ssh package though, on the basis 
> that I don't use it and can always put it back later if and when I need 
> it. 

I believe that you can disable the original behaviour by editing
/etc/X11/Xsession.options, and commenting out the "use-ssh-agent"
entry.