F16: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/07/2012 11:33 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> This has always been the case from when I used fvwm, xfce and (now) lxde. 

So, it had started previously under lxde?

>> So....  Does it get started again when you logout/login?
> No. Do I use systemd on this? But again, I have never had to do this,
> ever, and I have my ssh-agent running all the time: that is how I
> connect to the remote machine (without authenticating every time). I can
> only connect now by typing the passphrase everytime.
>

No, it isn't a systemd thing.  It a user process started when/by the starting of the
desktop.

I don't really know what you mean by having "ssh-agent running all the time" or why
you need to have it....  I have all of my rsa public keys in the authorized_keys
files of all of my accounts so that I can ssh to any system without supplying a
password or pass phrase.  In all of those cases there is no ssh-agent running on the
system to where I am connecting.

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ ssh f16-1
Last login: Sat Apr  7 23:49:12 2012 from meimei.greshko.com

[egreshko at f16-1 ~]$ ps -eaf | grep ssh
root       938     1  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
root     13815   938  1 23:49 ?        00:00:00 sshd: egreshko [priv]
egreshko 13818 13815  0 23:49 ?        00:00:00 sshd: egreshko at pts/0
egreshko 13886 13819  0 23:49 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto ssh

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