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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
Le 15/09/2017 à 02:47, hal a écrit :
> I've noticed that my ssh-agent process seems to stop working with 'ssh-add' after a few days
> or so. Issuing 'ssh-add' from an xfce4-terminal results in the error message
>
>    "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."

>
> Why is this? There seems to be a myriad of ssh-agent processes running.
> Is there a standard way to restart ssh-agent? I belive killing process
> 27850 will dump by Xsession from previous experience.
>
>
> mylo    2594     1  0 Sep05 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo    2614     1  0 Sep05 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo    2629     1  0 Sep05 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo    2641     1  0 Sep05 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo    2659     1  0 Sep05 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo   10768     1  0 Aug24 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
> mylo   12904     1  0 Sep08 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo   13036     1  0 Sep08 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo   13292     1  0 Aug24 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
> mylo   13473     1  0 Sep02 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent -s
> mylo   13907 19346  0 19:41 pts/5    00:00:00 grep ssh-agent
> mylo   27850 27796  0 Aug25 ?        00:00:06 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /bin/bash /home/mylo/.xsession
> mylo   27891     1  0 Aug25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
> mylo   29792     1  0 Sep01 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> mylo   30159     1  0 Sep11 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> _______________________________________________


     Hi Hal.


     Seems you didn't logout since august 24. I admit that this 
accumulation of ssh-agents is strange and deserves investigation, but 
simply ending the session should kill them all.


     Didier