On 19/11/2025 13:16, Peter Milesson wrote:
I have no idea if the sockets are needed for LXDE, or not. When I log on with SSH from a remote client, sockets are not created under ~/.ssh/ agent. There are however, a bunch of sockets created under /run/user/ <uid> in both cases.
I have realized that /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent creates a socket in /tmp, not in ~/.ssh (at least in bookworm).
I forgot that LXDE may have its own GUI component to display password prompt when the user initiate a ssh connection directly or by e.g. git. I am leaving it up to you to investigate whether ~/.ssh/agent is created by LXDE out of the box or it is customization of you as an administrator or of your users. I hope, it is possible to adjust configuration to create the socket in some other directory. In addition you need to keep SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment pointing to the actual path.
I still think that error due to ssh-agent should not be a fatal error for whole session. A notification dialog is enough.
There was a recent thread on changes after trixie release that affects at least XFCE:
Re: Lost graphical ssh-askpass with Xfce4 in forky. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:45:46 +0700.
<https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected]> However applications, I am aware of, create sockets under /run/user.
