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

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 23:53:12 +0800 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
wrote:

> 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?

Yes, until last night's updates (which may not have been relevant).

> 
> >> 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.

OK, sorry. I was not precise at all: I only understand ssh from a
layman's perspective: I followed exactly the process you outlined
above everytime. Is this a bug? How do I detect what is the issue? 

Rannjan