Re: How to not start ssh-agent with XFCE4 desktop (only gpg-agent)?

[Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com>]

On 01/26/2017 03:38 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2017-01-26, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
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> > I have a Debian testing XFCE4 desktop system and use gpg-agent to
> > manager ssh-agent protocol as well. There is "enable-ssh-support" in
> > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file which, among other things, makes
> > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent file set variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK so that
> > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent file _doesn't_ start
> > ssh-agent.
> >
> > That works just fine (i.e., ssh-agent is not started) if I start a bare
> > X session like
> >
> >     $ startx /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
> >
> > but if I start a full XFCE4 session (/usr/bin/startxfce4) then something
> > (but certainly not 90x11-common_ssh-agent) starts "ssh-agent -s" process
> > and overrides SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable. And that's annoying.
> >
> > So, does anybody know how to not start ssh-agent with XFCE4 desktop
> > session?

Call me crazy, but, have you tried turning ssh off in rcconf?

Tony

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