How to stop ssh-agent being started?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Feb 21 19:06:39 UTC 2008


John Austin wrote:

> Slightly off-topic !!
> 
> I'm using F8 x86-64 kdm/kde
> 
> I have been putting a 3 line script in /etc/kde/env to get ssh-agent
> working
> 
> To enable ssh-agent then create the file /etc/kde/env/ssh_agent_enable.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> eval `ssh-agent`
> /usr/bin/ssh-add
> 
> Is this wrong ?
> How should I have been doing it ????

ssh-agent should get started automatically (via stuff in /etc/X11/xinit). 
You shouldn't need to do anything extra.

-- Rex





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