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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 16/09/2017 à 13:03, Florian Zieboll a écrit :
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:43:34 -0400
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
>> Is it just me, or does ssh-agent interacting with dbus seem like a
>> horrible idea?
>
> IIUC, they are only interacting insofar, that the ssh-agent will
> terminate as soon as (in this case) dbus(-launch) exits.
>
> From the manpage:
>
> | SYNOPSIS
> |    ssh-agent [-c | -s] [-d] [-a bind_address] [-t life] [command [arg ...]]
> |
> | (...)
> |
> |    If a commandline is given, this is executed as a subprocess of the
> |    agent. When the command dies, so does the agent.

>
>


     I think the principle is that the ssh agent is the mother of all 
processes in the session, so that they all inherit the environment 
variable SSH_AGENT_PID.


      Didier