On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:00:00 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> On my FC7, it appears that KDE creates an ssh-agent when it starts. > > It's not specific to KDE. It's done as part of the general X startup > scripts. > >> Is this a surprise? > > It was a pleasant one, for whatever version it was finally added to > (it's been a while, and I'd been adding it manually for a long while > before that). > >> What is it for? > > It manages ssh keys. If you use ssh to login to various boxes it is > very convenient to use key based authentication instead of using > passwords. Using ssh-agent you can add your key to the agent and only > enter the key's passphrase once for your entire X session. Then you can > ssh into other boxes without any prompting -- securely. > I have been using ssh-agents for a while and I have good scripts and procedures to manage them. Is there a way I can disable the provision of this automatically provided agent? It gets in the way, and I frequently have to manually delete it. Mike.
