On mer, 2008-03-12 at 19:52 -0700, novakyu wrote: > (1) when ssh-agent is launched before > keychain had a chance to run, it suppresses keychain from launching > its > own ssh-agent (since that is the sole purpose of the script), (2) > because the particular ssh-agent is not identified and tracked, even > if > I were to run a separate ssh-agent on the side, xfce4 will kill it on > logout with ssh-agent -k).
Well, it kills ssh-agent only if it has run it. And it kills the one it ran, using SSH_AGENT_PID. So if you run keychain after that, it shouldn't kill its ssh-agent. If it does, there's a bug in ssh-agent. If an ssh-agent is already running, Xfce won't run one anyway. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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