[xubuntu-users] Why do I have two ssh-agent processes?

[Elbert LaGrew]

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 <cl at isbd.net> 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]cl at isbd.net> 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.
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> > >      Chris Green
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> >    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.
>
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