<div dir="ltr">Change at your peril. I am leaving mine as is. It does not come up in any security scan I know of.<div><br></div><div>--El</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:21 AM Chris Green <<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:21:01AM -0500, Elbert LaGrew wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:20 AM Chris Green <[1]<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net" target="_blank">cl@isbd.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > I am running xubuntu 20.04 on two systems and they both have two<br>
> > ssh-agent processes running, e.g.:-<br>
> > chris$ ps -ef | grep ssh-agent<br>
> > chris 1223 1136 0 Sep16 ? 00:00:00<br>
> > /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/im-launch startxfce4<br>
> > chris 1898 1133 0 Sep16 ? 00:00:00<br>
> > /usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/1000/keyring/.ssh<br>
> > chris$ ps -p 1136<br>
> > PID TTY TIME CMD<br>
> > 1136 ? 00:00:03 xfce4-session<br>
> > Even stranger, one of the ssh processes sets SSH_AGENT_PID and the<br>
> > other sets SSH_AUTH_SOCK:-<br>
> > chris$ env | grep SSH<br>
> > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh<br>
> > SSH_AGENT_PID=1223<br>
> > So, how do I get rid of one of them (assuming having two is wrong)?<br>
> > Both appear to be started by xfce4-session.<br>
> > --<br>
> > Chris Green<br>
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> I think BOTH are needed and BOTH are normal. Leave them alone.<br>
> From mine:<br>
> env | grep SSH<br>
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh<br>
> SSH_AGENT_PID=1712<br>
> --El<br>
<br>
But without the ps showing the processes those environment variable<br>
may well have been set by a single ssh-agent. The problem is not that<br>
the two variables have been set but that there are two ssh-agent<br>
processes *both* of which should have set both those variables.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>El LaGrew<br></div><div><a href="http://godchose.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://godchose.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>