How to stop ssh-agent being started?

[Rex Dieter]

Chris G wrote:

> I'm running Fedora 7 but I *don't* want ssh-agent started
> automatically, it gets in the way of an ssh pipe I sometimes need to
> create.
> 
> I can't see any 'proper' way to prevent it from starting, it appears
> to be hard-coded in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common (and the scripts
> that call it).  Am I missing something or is this really not
> configurable?

Atm, all hard-coded, I'm afraid.  Proposals have been floating around how to
make this robust, configurable (and to allow other sorts of session agents,
including, for example, gpg-agent), but nothing has come of that yet.

-- Rex