On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:21:01AM -0500, Elbert LaGrew wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:20 AM Chris Green <[1][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. > > -- > > Chris Green > > -- > > xubuntu-users mailing list > > [2][email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > [3]https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > > > 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
But without the ps showing the processes those environment variable may well have been set by a single ssh-agent. The problem is not that the two variables have been set but that there are two ssh-agent processes *both* of which should have set both those variables. -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
