> On 4/6/2010 10:46 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> 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 >> <snip> >>> question: >>> if you don't start ssh-agent in your terminal do you see something like >>> the following with ps? <snip> >> 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. > > So you have 2 different instances running? Y'know, that's an interesting question, and one I didn't think of. Thing is, I did *not* run ssh-agent when I was logging on this morning, *all* I did was ssh-add. Checking my history, I'm sure of this course of events. I just grepped, as well, and nothing in my . files runs it, nor does anything in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d. mark