Todd wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote, On 04/06/2010 10:51 AM: >> What I was doing: log onto my machine (system run level 5, I log out, >> NOT just lock the screen, every single night; therefore, there should be >> no processes running owned by me), and in a terminal window, do >> ssh-agent >> ssh-add .ssh/private key >> and enter my passphrase. Then I'd go through the day merrily on my way. >> >> Now, I find that when I log out, ssh-agent IS NOT STOPPED, even though I >> am logged all the way out. When I log out, unless I background >> something, everything running as me should go away. Everything. <snip> > question: > if you don't start ssh-agent in your terminal do you see something like > the following with ps? > > ~$ ps aux |grep agent > uname 12345 0.0 0.1 8916 3608 ? Ss 09:12 0:00 > /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l > /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session > /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients" Yep - ps -fu <mylogin> | grep ssh <mylogin> 13313 1 0 Apr02 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent <mylogin> 18049 18019 0 09:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients" <snip> 9:09 or so was when I used ssh-add. Note that ssh-agent has been running since the second, and I logged out Friday and yesterday. mark