From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 15:40:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DAB37B58F; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-195-14-235-22.netcologne.de [195.14.235.22]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA15455; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:40:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6AMdaT00278; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:39:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:39:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Mark Ovens , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about the use of ssh-agent(1) In-Reply-To: <20000710225930.H94380@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Paul Herman wrote: > > > The only problem is, it must only be removed on the *last* logout. > > Why? I just have a ssh-agent running all the time, it only stops > if I explicitly kill it for some weird reason, or I reboot, I've > never had any problems with it. Point taken, but I had suggested to him that he put a "ssh-agent -k" in his ~/.logout for good housekeeping, thus killing the agent upon (any) logout. In anycase, the poster found a solution which tailor to his needs, and you're way is OK too, especialy if the sysadmin (in this case, you :) allows ssh-agents to be running in the background when users aren't logged in. Hmmm... agents running in the background... sounds like a job for that doom port which let's you shoot processes to kill them... -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message