Re: *Now* what is starting ssh-agent?
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:08:59AM -0300, Chris Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:54:18 +0200
> Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > ssh-agent is usually started by your session manager. I do not know
> > wether all DE use this, but you can find it in
> >
> > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent
>
> True. The snippet in that file is nested in a conditional, though:
> if has_option use-ssh-agent; then
> …
>
> If I'm not mistaken, disabling "use_ssh_agent" in
> /etc/X11/Xsession.options causes that conditional to fail, so
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent will do nothing.
That all sounds correct, and matches up with your earlier message stating
that ssh-agent is a direct child of systemd PID 1. It's not being started
by Xsession.
We really need to see the systemd diagnostics that have been requested
by multiple people, now.
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