Re: [CentOS] ssh-agent

On 4/6/2010 2:04 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Sorry, you missed the subject of that sentence - I meant, why does it not stop the one I explicitly started? Are you saying that ssh-agent, with no commands, implicitly backgrounds itself?

Yes, someone pointed out that the manual says exactly that a few times already.

And, for the bigger picture, why should it? If I'm logging off, there's no reason for it to keep running. Any sessions that required it are either established, or shut down.

That's one of the things it can do. If you don't like it, use some other option. I assume it can feed cron jobs and the like when you aren't logged in if you want - but I've always just made keys with no passphrase when I know the commands will be automated.