Bug#658124: x11-common: Xsession should not start ssh-agent (should be a user-level choice)
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:27:43PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 15:46:28 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Note: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent does some checks
> > e.g. by testing whether $SSH_AUTH_SOCK is set, but unfortunately it
> > is sourced before the user can get the control on the environment,
> > so that there is no good workaround.
> >
> unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK in ~/.xsessionrc wouldn't work?
As pointed out, that's a hack. More clear is this (untested) patch,
which will honor STARTSSH pulled in from, e.g. .xsessionrc
--- 90x11-common_ssh-agent 2017-04-24 12:56:05.131727153 +0200
+++ /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent 2017-04-24 13:03:33.568948463 +0200
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
# This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed.
-STARTSSH=
+STARTSSH=${SSHAGENT:-}
SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent
SSHAGENTARGS=
if has_option use-ssh-agent; then
- if [ -x "$SSHAGENT" ] && [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] \
+ if [ -z "$STARTSSH" ] && [ -x "$SSHAGENT" ] && [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] \
&& [ -z "$SSH2_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
STARTSSH=yes
if [ -f /usr/bin/ssh-add1 ] && cmp -s $SSHAGENT /usr/bin/ssh-agent2; then
Greetings
Marc
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