Re: logins and ssh-agent

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 09:48 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>  On 01/07/2016 06:54 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>  > Some moons ago, ssh-agent, was started automatically on login.
>  
>  Which desktop environment?  GNOME shell replaced ssh-agent with the 
>  GNOME keyring daemon some time ago, though I don't know when.  Seems 
>  like ages.  It's a bit sad, since the keyring daemon doesn't support 
>  newer key types. 
Fedora Rawhide, GNOME, GNOMEShell

>  Anyway, is the problem that you don't see the ssh-agent process
>  (which 
>  is normal) or that there isn't any agent available? 
Really that there is no SSH key agent running that applications can
query. In a sense I do not care which application does this as long as
one does. It seems like the default should be gnome-keyring-daemon.

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