Change at your peril. I am leaving mine as is. It does not come up in any security scan I know of.
--El On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:21 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- El LaGrew http://godchose.blogspot.com/
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