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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="annexuser"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2016-05-04T19:16:31Z"
+ content="""
+That makes sense! I'm starting the assistant via systemd, so it probably doesn't have access to my environment to get the ssh keys. Thanks!
+"""]]