I think BOTH are needed and BOTH are normal. Leave them alone.
>From mine:
 env | grep SSH
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
SSH_AGENT_PID=1712

--El

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:20 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am running xubuntu 20.04 on two systems and they both have two
> ssh-agent processes running, e.g.:-
>
> chris$ ps -ef | grep ssh-agent
> chris       1223    1136  0 Sep16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent
> /usr/bin/im-launch startxfce4
> chris       1898    1133  0 Sep16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -D
> -a /run/user/1000/keyring/.ssh
> chris$ ps -p 1136
>     PID TTY          TIME CMD
>    1136 ?        00:00:03 xfce4-session
>
> Even stranger, one of the ssh processes sets SSH_AGENT_PID and the
> other sets SSH_AUTH_SOCK:-
>
> chris$ env | grep SSH
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
> SSH_AGENT_PID=1223
>
> So, how do I get rid of one of them (assuming having two is wrong)?
> Both appear to be started by xfce4-session.
>
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