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29 lines
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When you logout of any x session git-annex does not get killed.
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This means that if you login again git-annex will still try to use the ssh-agent from the last session which doesn't run anymore.
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This leads to countless password queries unless you use a passwordless key.
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> I've fixed this, though maybe not in an ideal way.
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> There's no way to make a XDG desktop file run a command on logout, that I
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> can see. That would have been my first choice.
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> So, I thought I'd just have the assistant not run setsid, so it's part of
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> the current login session and would get killed automatically on logout.
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> I was surprised that this didn't seem to work, on a system using logind.
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> Even when the desktop file ran git-annex with --foreground, it was not
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> stopped on logout. This may be because logind defaults to
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> KillUserProcesses=false,
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> although I'm not sure why processes that are part of the login session
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> are not killed at least.
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> What I have settled on is to leave the daemon running after logout,
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> but on a new login have the `git annex assistant --autostart` kill the
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> old daemon and start a new one.
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> Only possible problem with that is there will be a small window after
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> login where the old daemon is running. It might slip in a password prompt
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> there, using the new DISPLAY. At least it won't flood, and even a single
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> password prompt is pretty unlikely.
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> I am tenatively going to call this [[done]]. Seems to me that logind
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> could be improved though. --[[Joey]]
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