On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:05:47 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > 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?
(...) >From "man ssh-agent": *** DESCRIPTION ssh-agent is a program to hold private keys used for public key authentication (RSA, DSA). The idea is that ssh-agent is started in the beginning of an X-session or a login session, and all other windows or programs are started as clients to the ssh-agent program. Through use of environment variables the agent can be located and automatically used for authentication when logging in to other machines using ssh(1). *** Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jgj0bp$273$5...@dough.gmane.org
