KDE ssh-agent

[Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:00:00 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>> On my FC7, it appears that KDE creates an ssh-agent when it starts.
> 
> It's not specific to KDE.  It's done as part of the general X startup
> scripts.
> 
>> Is this a surprise?
> 
> It was a pleasant one, for whatever version it was finally added to
> (it's been a while, and I'd been adding it manually for a long while
> before that).
> 
>> What is it for?
> 
> It manages ssh keys.  If you use ssh to login to various boxes it is
> very convenient to use key based authentication instead of using
> passwords.  Using ssh-agent you can add your key to the agent and only
> enter the key's passphrase once for your entire X session.  Then you can
> ssh into other boxes without any prompting -- securely.
> 

I have been using ssh-agents for a while and I have good scripts and
procedures to manage them.  Is there a way I can disable the provision
of this automatically provided agent?  It gets in the way, and I
frequently have to manually delete it.

Mike.