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grant123
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 Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:30 pm Post subject: Why is ssh-agent running? |
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| How can I figure out why ssh-agent is running on my system? |
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DanneStrat
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Is gnome-keyring running on your system?
| Code: | | env | grep SSH_AUTH_SOCK |
would show "SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/<UID>/keyring/ssh"
if the ssh-agent belongs to gnome-keyring.
Some more info here.
If started somewhere else it would probably use the default "SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-xxxxxxxxxxx/agent.<PPID>"
and in that case we can investigate further what started ssh-agent. |
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grant123
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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I have this:
| Code: | # env | grep SSH_AUTH_SOCK
# ps -ef | grep ssh-agent
... /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s |
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DanneStrat
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Hi Grant. Sorry for not replying sooner,
If you use a display manager (DM) like GDM, KDM, LightDM etc. to load a
graphical environment then check the configuration directory for
your DM to see if ssh-agent is started from there.
Using GDM as an example:
| Quote: | cat /etc/gdm/Xsession
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# add ssh-agent if found
sshagent="`gdmwhich ssh-agent`"
if [ -n "$sshagent" ] && [ -x "$sshagent" ] && [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
command="$sshagent -- $command"
elif [ -z "$sshagent" ] ; then
echo "$0: ssh-agent not found!"
fi
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My guess would be that other DMs do something similar. |
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