Some might think I have no business wanting to know the answer to this question, but bare with me:
Where in the start-up code of a system that is running ssh client is the ssh-agent started? It has got to be early in the process, but where? And what exactly is done? Should I be able to see it in an init.d script? It is a daemon, but it is only needed to support an add-on feature of as ssh client so it should be part of the code that gdm/xdm runs, I suppose. Or what? There should be distinct instances of the agent for each user, I think. Or is there a single single instance that maintains a list of logged in users and their several private keys? How is it really implement. I get the impression that it is different ways on different systems. I'm only interested in the Debian implementation (because it is the only one I can check up on) It seems that it is not run when I log into a host using ssh or more exactly its pid is not exported to an ssh login process. Could I add something to the .profile script? If this is possible, it surely has been thought of before me and better and worse ways of doing have been discussed, but I'm not finding anything. Pointers to HOWTOs? Is there a common name for doing this? Etc. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120204080547.ga27...@big.lan.gnu
