what is ssh-sgent?

[John K Masters]

On 21:29 Sat 03 May     , andy baxter wrote:
> andy baxter wrote:
> > John K Masters wrote:
> >   
> >> On 20:50 Sat 03 May     , andy baxter wrote:
> >>   
> >>     
> >   
> P.S. I don't have any concrete reason to think my machine has been got 
> at - I was just poking around my system and found that ssh-agent has a 
> socket in /tmp.
> 
Should be fine. As I said ssh-agent gets installed when you install ssh.
However, if you are not using a service whether ssh or whatever then it
is probably best to turn it off.

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