I recently noticed a LOT of ssh-agent processes running on my system (CentOS 4.2). It seems that the ssh-agent gets started before the session manager (in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common) which is great. The only problem is that the agent process does not die when the session shuts down. I run ssh-add in my session startup to get my key loaded into ssh-agent, so that might be part of the issue. I just haven't been able to figure out where to kill the beast. Is there somewhere I can run an arbitrary program when the session manager runs down? A medium-intensity search of the docs and sourcecode didn't turn up anything applicable. Plenty of ways to run programs at session START, but not at the end. Anybody got any ideas? -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.leafey at mindless.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5322 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051221/e37660f3/attachment-0001.bin>
Alexander Dalloz
2005-Dec-21 21:01 UTC
[CentOS] (?) Dangling ssh-agent processes with GNOME
Am Mi, den 21.12.2005 schrieb Jay Leafey um 20:17:> I recently noticed a LOT of ssh-agent processes running on my system (CentOS 4.2). It seems that the ssh-agent gets started before > the session manager (in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common) which is great. The only problem is that the agent process does not die when > the session shuts down. > > I run ssh-add in my session startup to get my key loaded into ssh-agent, so that might be part of the issue.That is the cause of what you describe.> I just haven't been > able to figure out where to kill the beast. Is there somewhere I can run an arbitrary program when the session manager runs down? > A medium-intensity search of the docs and sourcecode didn't turn up anything applicable. Plenty of ways to run programs at session > START, but not at the end. Anybody got any ideas?Use "keychain" for more flexibility in loading and handling ssh keys with ssh-agent. http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repoview/keychain-0-2.5.5-2.el4.kb.html Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 21:58:31 up 17 days, 2:35, load average: 0.20, 0.17, 0.09 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051221/463bbbc4/attachment-0001.sig>