what is ssh-sgent?

[Kristian Rink]

Am Sat, 03 May 2008 16:17:30 -0500
schrieb sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com>:
[...]
> > > > root at monkey:~# ps ax | grep 5474
> > > >  5474 ?        Ss
> > > > 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch
> > > > --exit-with-session x-session-manager 16932 pts/1    R+
> > > > 0:00 grep 5474
[...]
> Actually openssh-client is part of the default desktop install. It
> gets pulled in by ssh-askpass-gnome, which in turn was pulled in by
> ubuntu-desktop

Stumbled across this as well earlier already. Despite knowing what
ssh-agent mainly is used for: What's the rationale to run (local) apps
like dbus-launch, xsessions and similar things through ssh-agent? Just
wondering as I remember days it wasn't done this way... :)

Cheers,
Kristian

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