Re: ssh-agent
On Friday 07 November 2003 1:04 pm, HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL wrote:
> 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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>
> J.A. de Vries aka HdV
> Delft University of Technology
> Computing Centre
Hello HdV
That's great, thanks, I appreciate it. I've just chopped SSH out
altogether now though, as I don't use it anyway. And I've printed out a
list of all my packages (18 pages of them) to see what else can go. I'm
high on the smell of cheap printer ink at the moment. My little Epson
printer used to crash after five pages under Wind'oh!s, but it ran
straight through this list with no problem. It was the software all
along.
Thanks for taking the time,
Geoff
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